London: Russian troops have suffered “significant losses” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, while rejecting allegations of a massacre in the town of Bucha as “a well-staged insinuation”.
In an interview with Britain’s Sky News, he said the military casualties were “a huge tragedy for us” but did not specify a toll. Russia in late March said it had lost 1,351 soldiers with another 3,825 wounded.
The UN General Assembly suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council in a symbolic step, expressing “grave concern” over the ongoing human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. After that, Russia resigned from the council.
Moscow has admitted that its offensive has not progressed as rapidly as it had hoped.
Russia claims to have started a “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine on February 24. That is a phoney pretext, according to Kyiv and its Western supporters.
Following further limitations imposed in the aftermath of the death of people in the town of Bucha, which were widely condemned as war crimes by the West, Ukraine has called on allies to cease buying Russian oil and gas and to strengthen it militarily.
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