Putin has lost more troops in Ukraine than US did in whole of Vietnam war – report
Arpan Rai
Mon, October 17, 2022, 1:17 PM·3 min read
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
Russia has lost around 65,000 soldiers since its invasion of
Ukraine, officials in Kyiv say, a death toll which would rank well above the fatalities suffered by the US in the Vietnam War.
The general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces gave the figure in its latest war update on social media. As of 17 October, it listed “about 65,320 (+320) persons eliminated” as among the “total combat losses of the enemy” since the war began almost eight months ago on 24 February.
If confirmed, it would mean Russia has lost close to 2,000 soldiers a week during the conflict. The 65,320 estimate was up about 10,000 on the previous figure provided by the Ukrainian military on 21 September.
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By way of comparison, according to the Defence Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files, around 58,220 US military casualties were recorded in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund states that 58,281 Americans died in the prolonged proxy war between the US and Indochina forces in Vietnam.