Ukraine: Russia Admits Suffering ‘Significant’ Troops Loss

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russia has admitted suffering “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine, as the invasion enters its 44th day.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told British channel Sky News the casualties were “a huge tragedy for us”.

He said he hoped Moscow would reach its war goals “in the coming days”.

Peskov’s comments followed Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations Human Rights council on Wednesday.

Some 93 of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the diplomatic rebuke, which followed allegations of mass human rights abuses by Russian troops in the formerly occupied town of Bucha in northern Ukraine. Moscow announced its resignation from the council in response.

The body expressed its “grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis”, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of further atrocities in Borodyanka, a town near the capital Kyiv.

Peskov denied any suggestion that Russian troops were responsible for executions in the town of Bucha and told the broadcaster that “we’re living in days of fakes and lies”. He baselessly claimed that images of civilians murdered in the town were staged.

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Peskov, who has served as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson since 2000, also claimed that Russia is searching for ways to end the war.

“Our military are doing their best to bring an end to that operation,” he said. “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.”

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