Ukraine reports nearly 3,000 Russian casualties in one day, an absolute record in this war

The Ukrainian General Staff said this Monday morning that it had recorded a total of 2,980 casualties in the enemy ranks during the past 24 hours, an absolute record in the number of dead and wounded reported by kyiv in a single day since the beginning of this war.

According to the calculations of the Ukrainian Army, which President Volodymyr Zelensky has explained is now able, thanks to drones, to obtain images of every dead or wounded soldier on the battlefield, the previous record had been established on November 1, when the Ukrainians neutralized 2,500 enemy soldiers.

The data on Russian casualties recorded by Ukraine can be seen broken down by day in a section of the official website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance that reflects the "dynamics of losses of the Russian Army" in both equipment and personnel.

Alleged confidential documents from the Russian national statistics service obtained by hackers who became known last week put the number of Russian soldiers killed on the front since the beginning of this war at nearly 400,000.

Ukraine has claimed for months that the Russians are having trouble finding new soldiers to replace those who die or have to stop fighting because they are wounded.

Russia has not so far decreed mandatory general mobilization as Ukraine has, and the Russian Army is nourished by men who voluntarily sign contracts with the armed forces in exchange for money.

However, President Zelensky has been warning for months that the Kremlin will be forced to decree a forced mobilization if it does not end the war.

This weekend the Russian authorities handed out summonses for enlistment in the army to a large part of the almost 200 young people detained in the center of Moscow in an operation presented as a measure to guarantee public order and prevent, among other things, the consumption of alcohol in public, according to Russian media.

According to Zelensky this month, Russia lost more than 54,000 men killed and wounded on the front lines in October.