Russian Military Expert Claims Kiev Lost Over 9,400 Troops in a Week, Per TASS

Russian state news agency TASS reported that Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 9,400 soldiers and mercenaries in combat over the past week, citing an unnamed military expert as its source for the figure.

According to the TASS report, the heaviest losses were inflicted on Ukrainian formations operating in the area of responsibility of what Russia's military refers to as the Battlegroup Center, one of several groupings Moscow says it has organized along the front line in Ukraine.

The report did not cite independent verification for the casualty figure, and TASS is a Russian state-controlled outlet whose reporting on the war reflects official Russian military assessments. Ukraine's government has not commented on the specific figure, and casualty claims from both Russian and Ukrainian sources during the war have frequently been disputed or unverifiable by independent parties.

Both Moscow and Kyiv have periodically released their own estimates of enemy losses since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, with each side's figures often diverging sharply and neither being independently confirmed by neutral observers.

TASS did not provide further breakdown of the reported losses by equipment, sector, or the methodology used to arrive at the weekly figure.