MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army has suffered nearly 2.5 million casualties in the special military operation, Deputy Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Main Military-Political Department, Akhmat Special Forces Commander, Lieutenant General Apty Alaudinov told TASS.

"A policy of total annihilation of Ukraine’s male population is being pursued [by the Kiev regime]. <…> Even when we hand over the bodies of their deceased servicemen to them, they simply take them and bury them without conducting any forensic examination. They do not return these bodies to their families and loved ones. The figure [for Ukrainian armed forces casualties] has long since surpassed two million. We must realize for ourselves that it is heading toward approximately 2.5 million," he said.

Alaudinov noted that the continuation of the "total annihilation of Ukraine’s male population" only confirms the Kiev regime’s indifference to the growing number of casualties. "The powers that be behind the current government in Ukraine couldn’t care less about Ukraine’s male population or the Ukrainian people themselves, just as they couldn’t care less about the people of Russia. It makes no difference to them how many of us die in total: they have their own goals and their own objectives," the military commander explained.