Moscow Reveals Ukrainian Casualties in All Branches of Military Service Since Hostilities Started on February 24 — Russian soldiers and volunteers distribute bread in Mariupol on April 12, 2022, as Russian troops intensify a campaign to take the strategic port city, part of an anticipated massive onslaught across eastern Ukraine, while Russia's President makes a defiant case for the war on Russia's neighbour. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images

Moscow claims that Ukrainian casualties are more than Kyiv wants to admit, as foreign media emphasizes Russian deaths.

According to Russian authorities, the total number of deaths is 23,367 combatants, including all services. They are the army, national guard, and foreign mercenaries fighting the Russians on active fronts; and experiencing unreported losses.

Kyiv Conceals Actual Casualties

Nothing much is known about the losses of Kyiv that have been confirmed since February 24, when the Kremlin allowed the special operation in Donbas; the Ministry of Defense released it last Saturday, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov reported the numbers that included 4000 casualties, with foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the notorious Azov and Aidar regiments involved in the Mariupol offensive.

Adding that documents show that Kyiv's losses are not made up that would soon be published with detailed information.

Konashenkov claimed the proof of Ukraine's losses that would be published to show how the enemy's troops were decimated.

Ukraine claims that it has lost between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers throughout the country. In an interview with CNN on Friday, Zelensky claimed that the Russian military had suffered up to 20,000 deaths that were not verified. Moscow heavily disputes Zelensky's claims. Russian officials admit it had lost just over 1,350 troops.

He called out the Ukrainian leader who is keeping the actual number of fatalities that would be a blow to the morale of the ultranationalists and neo-Nazis fighting in parts of the country.

Assaults Ukraine targets

Moscow says that it executed high-precision missile strikes on six Ukrainian military equipment sites and seven troop strongholds during the day, according to Konashenkov, as Russian air aircraft demolished 67 troop and equipment sites, cited AA. They are included in the Ukrainian casualties.

Soldiers near Odesa shot down a Ukrainian military transport jet, which had armaments delivered by the West to fight Russian forces. Foreign arms shipments would be deemed as targets, said officials.

US President Joe Biden approved an $800 million shipment of heavy weapons for Ukraine early this week, comprising artillery and helicopters. A flight of weaponry from this shipment was due to come to Ukraine within a day, based on a CNN report last Friday.

According to the Russian general, the launching of high-precision attacks last Friday and Saturday morning to destroy a military vehicle manufacturing plant in Kyiv and a military repair depot in the city of Nikolaev located in southern Ukraine.

Overnight, 16 targets, comprising Ukrainian military formations, weapons and ammunition stores, and radar sites, were struck, he claimed.

In retaliation for Ukraine's bombardment of Russian territory, Moscow warned earlier this week that it would escalate such strikes and target "decision-making centers" in Kyiv and disputed that such strikes on Russian soil had occurred.

Strikes have ramped up as a response to the loss of the cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, just after fire broke out on board and spread to munitions storage. Kyiv claims to have launched an anti-ship missile at the warship.

Volodymyr Zelensky will contest Moscow and its figures on the Ukrainian casualties as it will amount to the low morale of their forces.