Russia says it has suffered “significant losses of troops”
in its war with Ukraine.
Dmitry Peskov, Russia’s presidential spokesman, said this on
Thursday in an interview with Sky News.
“We’ve had significant losses of troops and it’s a huge
tragedy for us,” he said.
His admission is significant because Russia’s ministry of
defence had reportedly said 1,351 of its soldiers had been killed in the war
while Ukraine had stated the number of Russian casualties as almost 19,000.
Peskov said the Russian military is doing its best to bring
an end to war.
“And we do hope that in coming days, in the foreseeable
future, this operation will reach its goals or will finish it by the
negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegation,” he added.
Speaking further, the spokesman denied suggestions that
Russian troops were responsible for killings in the town of Bucha and said
“we’re living in days of fakes and lies”, adding that images of civilians
murdered in the town were staged.
Last weekend, viral videos from Bucha, a suburb of the
capital, Kyiv, showed the streets littered with corpses, with some having their
hands tied behind their backs.
The bodies were found after Russian troops withdrew from the
town.
The killings drew international outrage, with Western
leaders calling for war crimes investigations against Russia.
Subsequently on Thursday, the United Nations (UN) general
assembly, adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of Russia from the
human rights council.
The resolution received a two-thirds majority in the
193-member assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour and 24 against, while 58
countries abstained from the process.
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