Russian losses in Ukraine exceed Soviet losses in Afghanistan

The Jerusalem Post reports: “Russia has suffered more losses in the 26 days since the start of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine than the Soviet army did over the course of a decade (1979-1989) in Afghanistan, data shared by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has shown.

The infographic released by the Ministry of Defense shows that the official Soviet army losses in Afghanistan amounted to 15,051 personnel, whereas the losses currently suffered by the Russian army in Ukraine amount to around 15,300 personnel, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Adviser to the President’s Office Oleksiy Arestovych said on March 22 that, according to preliminary data, Ukrainian forces had shot down the 100th Russian plane over Mariupol, and two more enemy planes had been shot down over the Dnipropetrovsk region…”

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