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Ukraine Crisis | Moscow says nearly 500 of its troops have been killed

Published:Wednesday | March 2, 2022 | 12:36 PM
An armed man stands at the Independent Square (Maidan) in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Ukraine’s leader decried Russia's escalation of attacks on crowded cities as a blatant terror campaign, while President Joe Biden warned that if the Russian leader didn't “pay a price” for the invasion, the aggression wouldn’t stop with one country.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministry says 498 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine and 1,597 wounded.

Major General Igor Konashenkov rejected reports about “incalculable losses” of the Russians as “disinformation” on Wednesday and reported Moscow's casualties for the first time since the start of the attack last Thursday.

Konashenkov also said more than 2,870 Ukrainian troops have been killed and about 3,700 wounded, while 572 others have been captured.

Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on the figures, and they could not be immediately verified.

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