Russia is leader in prosthetic limbs thanks to Ukraine war, says Kremlin official | Russia

A Kremlin official said that the number of wounded soldiers fighting in Ukraine helped to make Russia a world leader in the production of prosthesis limbs.

Deputy Defense Minister Anna Tsivilyova, a relative of President Vladimir Putin, said that those who returned from the battlefield have become a “driver ına in a conference in Vladivostok.

In the Eastern Economic Forum, he said, “We’re probably now leading this direction,” he said.

“Participants who allow us to reach such a priority flagship level to the private military operation,” he said, using the period of Russia, who used Russia to invade Ukraine.

Putin said last year in Ukraine, about 700,000 Russian soldiers fought, but he kept the number of soldiers killed or injured in the occupation of Moscow and rarely announced the information about the losses.

According to the British Ministry of Defense, more than one million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the full -scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022.

This estimate is lately US -based Strategic and International Research Center (CSI)This is more than 950,000 of Russian military deaths, including the wounded, including wounded.

The signs of the high-wounded ratio in Russia’s exploding funeral industry-January and April 2025, funeral service providers have increased by 12.7% annually in earnings, and the increasing number of veterans returned home or legless home.

The Russian government data shows that it gave 60,000 more prosthesis limbs in 2024 compared to 2021 -an increase of 65%.

Tsivilyova was approved by the United States, the European Union and Britain due to its role in Russia’s role in Ukraine.

It is reported that Putin is the daughter of his first cousin, Britain lists Putin’s first cousin once ranks once ”and the EU lists it as the“ close relative of the Kremlin leader.

With Agent France-Presse