Authorities do not disclose casualties in the military, because on the one hand this is important and classified information, on the other hand, there is no definitive data, he said. Pravda.Ru Vladimir Bruter, an expert at the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies. At the same time, he noted that the warring parties actively published the number of each other’s casualties.
“The truth is, nobody actually has this data. These data are verified by personal cards that appear to have been lost. The exact whereabouts of the dead are not known. Not all of them can be immediately identified, not all collected, emptied into morgues, buried. Therefore, figures are always estimates,” Bruter explained.
He added that it is possible to determine the enemy’s losses approximately or by capturing some territory.
Formerly PMC “Wagner” fighter in the open Casualties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Soledar.