Russian President Vladimir Putin today visited wounded soldiers at a Moscow military clinic in the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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In the images offered by the First Channel, it is seen how Putin speaks with one of the soldiers who gets up in pajamas from the bed of the Mandrika military clinic.
“You will be proud of your father!” Putin told the soldier, who explained that he has a 9-month-old son. One of the injured received a shrapnel wound to the shoulder and another was shot in the abdomen.. Both are recovering and will soon begin the rehabilitation process.
Putin visited the clinic in the company of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, with whom he inspected the conditions in which the wounded arriving from the front are treated.
He also spoke with the health personnel of the clinic, which is located in the northwest of Moscow.
It has been exactly two months since the Russian Army has reported any casualties in its ranks. The last time was March 25, when Moscow put the fallen at 1,351. The Ukrainians estimate the number of Russian soldiers killed since February 24 in the thousands, which is why Putin would have chosen in recent weeks to “minimize” casualties by giving priority to aviation and artillery in his offensive.
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According to British intelligence, the Russians would have lost so many soldiers in three months – about 15,000 men– like the Soviet Army during the ten years of War in Afghanistan (1979-89).
In three months of fighting, the Russian Army has not managed to break the Ukrainian resistance in the Donetsk region, although it has been able to open a land corridor with the annexed Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine.
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