General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In the record: 11 statements, 8 checkable claims, the acting party in 64 events, the target in 57 events.
- Kind
- State forces
- Country
- Ukraine
- Part of
- Government of Ukraine
Claims it made (8)
What it said (11)
Said: 11 statements, not counted as events
10/27General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff put Russian personnel losses since 24 February 2022 at 1,581,840. Ukrainian outlets describe the daily figure as killed and wounded together.
12/02General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff called the Russian flag-raising video in Pokrovsk another attempt by the Kremlin to use a videotaped flag operation for propaganda, and said Ukrainian forces held the northern part of the city along the railway.
10/31General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said there was no encirclement or blockade of Pokrovsk or Myrnohrad and that troops, weapons and drones were being sent to reinforce Pokrovsk.
11/21General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from Astrakhan Oblast at Dnipro; President Zelensky said its speed and altitude matched an ICBM.
10/02General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Khortytsia operational group said higher command allowed units to withdraw from Vuhledar to preserve personnel and equipment, saying Russian forces had suffered heavy losses and used reserves for flanking attacks that threatened encirclement.
08/15General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces had advanced up to 35 km into Kursk Oblast and controlled 1,150 square km and 82 settlements.
03/17General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff put Russian personnel losses since 24 February 2022 at 430,740. Ukrainian outlets describe the daily figure as killed and wounded together.
12/20General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman for Ukraine's Tavria group of forces, said Russian forces had advanced 1.5 to 2 kilometres in places around Avdiivka since 10 October, at a cost of almost 25,000 killed and wounded across the group's sector, about 80 percent of them in the Avdiivka direction.
11/01General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: In an interview and essay in The Economist, commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi described the war as a stalemate entering a positional phase of static, attritional fighting that would let Russia rebuild, and listed air power, electronic warfare, counter-battery fire, mine breaching and reserves as needs. Deputy head of the presidential office Ihor Zhovkva said the military should not disclose the front-line situation, and on 4 November President Zelensky rejected the stalemate description.
09/25General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said 34 Russian officers, including the Black Sea Fleet commander, were killed and 105 wounded in the 22 September strike on the fleet headquarters. The next day Russia's defence ministry released video it said showed Admiral Viktor Sokolov at a meeting that day.
02/28General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's navy said all of the Snake Island border guards were alive and held by the Russian navy, reversing President Zelensky's earlier statement that the 13 guards had been killed.