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Russian army says 1,351 soldiers killed in Ukraine; first Russian civilian casualty reported

By AFP and ToI Staff 25 March 2022, 5:16 pm Edit
A cyclist rides past flames and smoke rising from a fire following an artillery fire on the 30th day of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25, 2022. (Aris Messinis / AFP)
A cyclist rides past flames and smoke rising from a fire following an artillery fire on the 30th day of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25, 2022. (Aris Messinis / AFP)

The Russian army updates its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers, while saying that it had evacuated more than 400,000 civilians and condemning Western supplies of weapons to Kyiv.

At a Moscow briefing, senior military officials gave the first update on Russian deaths in weeks and says 419,736 civilians had been evacuated from Ukraine.

A senior representative of the General Staff, Sergei Rudskoi, says: “We consider a huge mistake the supplies of arms to Kyiv by Western countries. That prolongs the operation.”

There have also been reports of a Russian pastor who was killed by a Ukrainian missile fire that struck a Russian village near the Ukrainian border. This would be the first casualty on Russian soil since the start of Russia’s invasion a month ago.

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