KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian squaddies were killed in motion within the two years since Russia introduced its full-scale invasion.Zelenskyy mentioned that the quantity was once some distance less than estimates given through Russian President Vladimir Putin’s executive.“31,000 Ukrainian army workforce were killed on this struggle. Now not 300,000, now not 150,000, now not no matter Putin and his deceitful circle were mendacity about. However nonetheless, each and every of those losses is a brilliant sacrifice for us”, Zelenskyy mentioned on the “Ukraine. Yr 2024” discussion board in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian chief mentioned that he wouldn’t reveal the choice of troops that had been wounded or lacking. He additionally mentioned that “tens of hundreds of civilians” have been killed in occupied spaces of Ukraine, however mentioned that no precise figures can be to be had till the struggle was once over.
“We don’t understand how a lot of our civilians they killed. We don’t,” he mentioned.
It’s the primary time that Kyiv has showed the choice of its losses for the reason that get started of Russia’s full-scale struggle on Feb. 24, 2022.Russia has supplied few respectable casualty figures. The newest information from the Protection Ministry, revealed in January 2023, pointed to simply over 6,000 deaths, despite the fact that stories from U.S. and U.Ok. officers put that quantity considerably upper.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives earlier than a press convention in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A U.S. intelligence file declassified in mid-December 2023 estimated that 315,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Ukraine. If correct, the determine would constitute 87% of the kind of 360,000 troops Russia had earlier than the struggle, consistent with the file.Impartial Russian information outlet Mediazona mentioned Saturday that about 75,000 Russian males died in 2022 and 2023 combating within the struggle.A joint investigation revealed through Mediazona and Meduza, every other unbiased Russian information website online, signifies that the velocity of Russia’s losses in Ukraine isn’t slowing and that Moscow is dropping about 120 males an afternoon.___Follow the AP’s protection of the struggle at
