In a press release published on its website this Thursday, January 2, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced that Russia lost 48,670 soldiers in combat during the month of December 2024. These are the most significant losses for Moscow since the start of the war in Ukraine.
As the months, and even years, go by, the numbers seem to be constantly increasing. According to a statement released by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Russian army lost 48,670 soldiers during the month of December 2024, a record since the start of its invasion in February 2022.
A figure much larger than the month of November 2024 which, again according to the Ukrainian authorities, was 45 720.
In a tweet published on its X account, the Ministry of Defense adds that “65 Russians are killed or injured every hour.”
65 killed and wounded occupiers every hour—in December, russian personnel losses exceed 48,000 troops.
It’s the record monthly number since the invasion began.
We make the occupiers pay the highest price for their brutal invasion. pic.twitter.com/TnT7ylyXyI— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1874752996757676191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Ukraine claims to have also, during the year 2024, destroyed 3,689 enemy tanks, i.e. the equivalent of 119 battalions with a pike during the month of May where 31 devices were destroyed in a single day.
8,956 armored combat vehicles would also have been destroyed during the year 2024. Finally, 13,050 artillery units would have also been affected which could have made it possible to equip the equivalent of 725 artillery divisions.
As a reminder, according to Ukrainian intelligence, 98,000 mobilized Russian soldiers are said to have died at the front between September 21, 2022 and October 31, 2024, reports RBC Ukraine.
On the Ukrainian side, President Volodmyr Zelensky announced, on December 7, the day after his tripartite meeting with Emmanuel Macron and the future President of the United States, Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris that “43,000 Ukrainian soldiers died on the battlefield”, since the start of the war.
