VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 12 (Interfax) - Ukraine is sustaining heavy losses during its counteroffensive - 71,500 troops and 543 tanks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"Ukraine has been conducting a so-called counteroffensive. There are no results, of course. We are not going to say now whether it is a failure or not. There are losses, large losses. Personnel losses since the start of this counteroffensive have reached 71,500," Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum.
"As regards tanks, they have already lost 543 tanks. As for armored vehicles of different types, it is nearly 18,000 and so on and so forth," he said.