8 500 Russian airborne troops wounded in Ukraine at least 8 500 members of the Russian Airborne forces have been wounded in the year and the half since Russia invaded Ukraine the elite troops Commander said Airborne forces commander of Russia Mikhail tepinsky disclosed the figures in a video message
congratulating comrades on paratroopers day which marked 93 years since the founding of the Corp more than 5 000 wounded paratroopers returned to the front after treatment and more than 3500 of our wounded refused to leave the front line tepolinski said his video address was published by the defense Ministry run
broadcaster zavezda hours later the footage was taken down from both zavezda's website and its channel on the telegram messaging app for unexplained reasons according to the Moscow times media Outlet the independent investigative news Outlet agency well which spotted the video's removal speculated that the footage was removed because it disclosed information the defense Ministry did not want to be made
public teplinski did not say how many Airborne forces troops had been killed in the war the defense Ministry last disclosed its overall casualty members in Ukraine in September 2022 saying 5937 soldiers had been killed in combat a figure believed to be much higher open source intelligence analyst kiril mikhailov told a Dennis Bo that teplinski's figures suggest that several thousand Russian paratroopers may
have been killed in Ukraine an independent tally based on open source data by the BBC's Russian service and the News website media Zona estimates that at least 1832 paratroopers died in Ukraine as of July the 30th .
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