{"id":1425486,"date":"2022-04-08T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425486"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:00:29","slug":"pics-kremlin-admits-russia-has-taken-significant-losses-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pics-kremlin-admits-russia-has-taken-significant-losses-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"PICS: Kremlin Admits Russia Has Taken &#039;Significant&#039; Losses in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpics-kremlin-admits-russia-has-taken-significant-losses-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The chief spokesman for the Kremlin has admitted that Russia has incurred \u201csignificant\u201d losses during Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview with Western media, Dmitry Peskov\u00a0said that Russia\u2019s \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine has resulted in heavy losses, although the Kremlin spokesman did not reveal how many soldiers have been killed in the war.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have significant losses of troops and it\u2019s a huge tragedy for us,\u201d Peskov admitted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-war-putins-spokesman-denies-war-crimes-but-admits-significant-russian-losses-12584552\">interview<\/a> with Sky News.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20582435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239813522.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture shows burnt Russian tanks next to a road west of Kyiv, on April 7, 2022, during Russia\u2019s military invasion launched on Ukraine. Six weeks after Russia invaded its neighbour, its troops have withdrawn from Kyiv and Ukraine\u2019s north and are focusing on the country\u2019s south-east, where desperate attempts are underway to evacuate civilians.\u00a0 (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While current estimates are difficult to ascertain in the fog of war, late last month NATO claimed that the Russian military death toll could be as high as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/25\/kremlin-declares-everything-going-according-to-plan-in-ukraine\/\">15,000<\/a>, with some 40,000 captured, killed, wounded, or missing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Russia has only admitted publicly to a few hundred deaths, however, last month a pro-Kremlin newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/22\/pro-kremlin-paper-claims-was-hacked-posting-alleged-russian-death-toll-ukraine\/\">quickly deleted<\/a> an article claiming that 10,000 Russian soldiers had perished.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian spokesman also refrained from saying how many civilians have been killed since the full-scale invasion was launched in February, saying that he would not provide an answer until the figures were \u201cdouble confirmed\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20581940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239813458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20581940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239813458.jpg\" alt=\"Road service workers clean debris around a burnt Russian tank and vehicle on a road west of Kyiv, on April 7, 2022, during Russia&#039;s military invasion launched on Ukraine. - Six weeks after Russia invaded its neighbour, its troops have withdrawn from Kyiv and Ukraine&#039;s north and are focusing on the country&#039;s southeast, where desperate attempts are under way to evacuate civilians. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV \/ AFP) (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Road service workers clean debris around a burnt Russian tank and vehicle on a road west of Kyiv, on April 7, 2022, during Russia\u2019s military invasion launched on Ukraine. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peskov, who refused to characterise the invasion as a war, did deny accusations of war crimes or genocide being committed by the Russian military.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Associated Press claimed that its reporters had witnessed dozens of dead bodies of civilians in Bucha, near Kyiv (Kiev), prompting Western governments to impose more sanctions on Moscow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re living in days of fakes and lies,\u201d said Peskov, who claimed that the photos and satellite images purporting to show dead civilians in Bucha were a \u201cbold fake\u201d and \u201cwell-staged insinuation, nothing else\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deny the Russian military can have something in common with these atrocities and that dead bodies were shown on the streets of Bucha,\u201d the Kremlin spokesman said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20581967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239787455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20581967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239787455.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - A cyclist passes by a destroyed building in the town of Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv, on April 6, 2022. - The Russian retreat last week has left clues of the battle waged to keep a grip on Borodianka, just 50 kilometres (30 miles) north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV \/ AFP) (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A cyclist passes by a destroyed building in the town of Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv, on April 6, 2022. The Russian retreat last week has left clues of the battle waged to keep a grip on Borodianka, just 50 kilometres (30 miles) north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peskov went on to scoff at the notion of Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin facing a war crimes tribunal, as Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-60588031\">suggested<\/a>, saying:\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t see any possibility for that, we don\u2019t consider it to be realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turing his ire on Mr Johnson, the Russian spokesman said:\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s very loud in his rhetoric about Russia from the beginning of the operation, he\u2019s rather not constructive in his attitude.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never heard any similar rhetoric from Boris Johnson in the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people were killed in Donbas by Ukrainian nationalists, when they were heavily bombarded and shelled by heavy artillery, we have never heard a word coming from Mr Johnson,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20582012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1389950018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20582012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1389950018.jpg\" alt=\"BUCHA, UKRAINE - APRIL 06: People look at a destroyed Russian military vehicle on a street on April 06, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a \" deliberate massacre \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>BUCHA, UKRAINE \u2013 APRIL 06: People look at a destroyed Russian military vehicle on a street on April 06, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a \u201cdeliberate massacre\u201d as they occupied and eventually retreated from Bucha, 25km north-west of Kyiv. (Photo by Chris McGrath\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peskov went on to say that Moscow believes that NATO itself is not a peaceful defensive alliance, but rather a \u201cmachine for confrontation\u201d and that Russia is seeking to \u201crebalance the situation\u201d by securing its flanks.<\/p>\n<p>Should Finland or Sweden join NATO, Peskov said, Russia will look to\u00a0\u201cmake our Western flank more sophisticated in terms of ensuring our security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is about mutual deterring and should one side \u2014 and we consider NATO to be one side \u2014 be more powerful than the other, especially in terms of nuclear arms, then it will be considered a threat for the whole architecture of security and it will force us to take additional measures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Peskov did signal the possibility of the war ending in the near future, though, saying that the Russian government hopes that it will \u201creach its goals\u201d or strike a peace deal with Ukraine so that the \u201coperation\u201d will conclude in the \u201ccoming days, in the foreseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20581931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239794755.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20581931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239794755-1024x768-1.png\" alt=\"HOSTOMEL, UKRAINE - APRIL 06: Burnt Russian tanks and APCs are seen in a field on April 6, 2022 in Hostomel, Ukraine. Hostomel was occupied for more than a month by Russian forces as they pushed toward the Ukrainian capital, before ultimately retreating to Belarus last week. (Photo by Alexey Furman\/Getty Images)\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>HOSTOMEL, UKRAINE \u2013 APRIL 06: Burnt Russian tanks and APCs are seen in a field on April 6, 2022 in Hostomel, Ukraine. Hostomel was occupied for more than a month by Russian forces as they pushed toward the Ukrainian capital, before ultimately retreating to Belarus last week. (Photo by Alexey Furman\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief spokesman for the Kremlin has admitted that Russia has incurred \u201csignificant\u201d losses during Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. In his first interview with Western media, Dmitry Peskov\u00a0said that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}