The deployment of a European contingent would be “unacceptable” for Russia, warns Sergei Lavrov

You must speak of a publication of the Russian Telegram channel Mash. Meanwhile, deemed close to the Russian security services, in which it is written that “Ukraine lost 1.7 million soldiers during the“ special operation ” [le nom employé par la Russie pour parler de la guerre en Ukraine] – They are killed. missing. The information comes from the Database of the General Staff of deployment european contingent would “unacceptable” the Ukrainian Armed Forces, hacked by our hackers. ”

The Center for the Fight against Ukrainian Disinformation denounces “An absolutely absurd fake” emanating from “Propaganda resources under Kremlin control” arguing in particular that“In January 2025. in the words of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the workforce of the Ukrainian army was 880,000 people” and that “According to data from the staff [ukrainien]on August 20, 2025, the Russians have since lost [le début de la guerre] 1,072,700 people killed or injured, which denies the figures invented by the Russian propagandists concerning Ukrainian losses. »»

According to a study by the American think tank Center for Strategic. International Studies (CSIS, Washington), published on June 3, the war in Ukraine would have killed around 1 million dead or injured among Russian soldiers and 400,000 on the Ukrainian side, bringing the total assessment to deployment european contingent would “unacceptable” 1.4 million human losses. According to the study. 250,000 Russian soldiers and between 60,000 and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, making this war one of the deadliest since the Second World War in Russian or Soviet territory.

This type of estimate is particularly complex because Ukraine does not publish official figures. while Russia seems to underestimate the human balance sheet. The study is therefore mainly based on the estimates of British and American governments.

For its part. the independent Russian media Mediazonain collaboration with the Russian BBC service, at 1^is August, counted 121,507 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Journalists who have detailed their methodology note that real figures are probably much higher. because their verified information comes from public sources such as necrologies, publications of relatives, declarations of local authorities, etc.