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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States Anatoly AntonovWASHINGTON, Mar 31The U.S. State Department is deliberately inflating the number of Russian military casualties in Ukraine, unsuccessfully seeking to provoke public discontent in Russia, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday and advised turning to the Russian Ministry of Defense for reliable information about what is happening in Ukraine. Thus, a high-ranking Russian diplomat commented on the statement for the media by US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland about Russia's alleged loss of «over 10,000″ troops in Ukraine. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on March 25 that more than 1.3 thousand Russian soldiers were killed during the special operation, more than 3.8 thousand were injured. Among the Ukrainian side, according to the Russian department, the losses are many times higher: about 14,000 killed and about 16,000 wounded. It won’t work,” said Antonov, whose statement was posted on the account of the Russian diplomatic mission on the Telegram channel. national interests of the Russian Federation,» Antonov added, offering to contact the Russian Ministry of Defense for reliable information about what is happening in Ukraine.Nebenzya: attempts to isolate Russia lead to global economic crisisRussia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation as of March 30, 81% of Ukrainian military aircraft (124 out of 152), 72% of tanks and other armored vehicles (1752 out of 2416), half of the helicopter fleet have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation (77 out of 149) and so on. According to the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, the Air Force and Air Defense of Ukraine are “practically destroyed,” and the Navy “ceased to exist.” Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages of Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields. Kyiv realized that the issue of Crimea and Donbass has been finally resolved, Lavrov said