The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine estimated the daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at one hundred people killed

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 9Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that the situation at the front is difficult, Ukrainian troops are losing up to a hundred killed and up to 500 wounded every day. «The situation at the front is difficult. We lose up to hundreds of our fighters were killed and up to 500 were wounded,» Reznikov wrote in social networks. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.