Ukraine - Massive rise of number of casualties

Dramatic rise in the number of dead in Ukraine.

BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville is one of the few journalists reporting from the front lines in Ukraine. Sommerville describes dramatic scenes of piles of bodies of young men senselessly killed.

Fierce fighting continued over the weekend in the Zaporizhia and Kupyansk regions. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine lost 570 men on September 1 and 655 men on September 2.

Earlier in August, Russia claimed that Ukraine had lost 43,000 men in the first two months of the counteroffensive. Daily reports on losses from the Russian Defense Ministry put Ukraine's losses in August at over 16,000, meaning that Ukraine's total losses in the counteroffensive were about 60,000.

Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar has threatened to prosecute anyone who publishes casualty figures.

"The heavy losses of the Ukrainian Army in the course of the so-called 'counteroffensive' are caused by effective strikes of Russian forces on Ukrainian armored vehicles at a great distance," the Russian Defense Ministry claimed. "The Ukrainian Army High Command is blindly sacrificing its men, letting them cross Russian mine fields without fire support."
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