OREANDA-NEWS. Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov said that it is difficult to demonstrate with specific examples, from which the military of the Russian Armed Forces often die during a special operation in Ukraine, it all depends on the zone, as well as the specifics of the actions.

Based on the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 1,351 Russian servicemen were killed in the course of a special military operation. At the same time, the irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and foreign mercenaries total about 23,000.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses, on our side there are an order of magnitude fewer losses. And by “our side,” I also mean the People’s Militia of the DPR/LPR, because the RF Armed Forces are conducting ground operations to a limited extent. Basically, units and units of the DNR/LNR operate there. Russia mainly exerts a fire effect, destroying enemy resistance nodes with the most modern types of weapons, ”he emphasized during a conversation with Ukraina.ru.

At present, no one has named any critical deadlines for completing the special operation, at the moment there are none either, Russia has the ability to bring it to the end with the forces that are available now, without resorting to mobilization, Sivkov noted.