Sobyanin said about 45 thousand Muscovites fighting in Ukraine

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported that approximately 45 thousand residents of the Russian capital are fighting in the zone of the so-called “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine.

According to him, about 20 thousand of them are mobilized, about the same number are volunteers and contract workers, and another 5 thousand are professional soldiers.

Sobyanin also announced the number of Muscovites who died, as he put it, “on the construction of defense weapons.” “More than twenty Muscovites died, more than one hundred were injured,” the mayor said. He did not say anything about the number of dead residents of the capital directly on the battlefield.

The Russian authorities do not report the number of army units fighting in Ukraine, nor do they publish data on losses. In December of last year, Vladimir Putin only stated that 150,000 servicemen, called up as part of the partial mobilization announced by the president, are in the zone of the so-called special military operation. According to the estimates of various military experts, there are between 400 and 500 thousand Russian soldiers in the occupied Ukrainian territories.

Based on this, according to the most modest calculations (if based on the data provided by Sobyanin), every twelfth participant in the war on the part of Russia is a Muscovite, which, according to the same experts, is a dubious and inflated figure.

Not so long ago, at the end of July, the mayor of the capital declared that not 45 thousand, but about 30 thousand Muscovites are fighting in Ukraine.