The Russian Ministry of Defense announced, on Wednesday, the casualties among its forces in the ongoing military operation in Ukraine. The ministry said in a statement that the losses among the Russian forces amounted to 498 dead and 1,597 wounded.
The Russian Defense Ministry indicated that the losses of the Ukrainian side amounted to 2,870 dead and about 3,700 wounded, while 572 soldiers of the Ukrainian side were captured. On the other hand, the Ukrainian army on Wednesday called on the mothers of Russian soldiers captured in the battles to come to Kyiv to receive their sons, in an apparent attempt to embarrass Moscow. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that "a decision was taken to hand over captured Russian soldiers to their mothers if they came to receive them in Ukraine, in Kyiv."
A week into the war, Kyiv says it has captured dozens of Russian soldiers. And spread on the websites, video recordings of the phone showing young men in military uniforms, looking confused and without weapons. Kyiv sought to undermine Russian public support for the invasion by opening a hotline for Russian families to find out the fate of their sons and whether they were killed or captured. The Defense Ministry released phone numbers and an email address to provide information on captured Russians, while mothers were invited to come to Kyiv to collect their missing sons. "You will be received and taken to Kyiv, where your son will be returned to you," the ministry said in a statement. "Unlike Putin's fascists, we Ukrainians do not wage war against mothers and their captured sons," he added.
Source: Sky News.
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