About 31,000 Ukrainian troopers have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion started two years in the past, President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on Sunday, acknowledging for the primary time within the warfare a concrete determine for the worst Ukraine.
“It is a nice loss for us,” Mr. Zelensky mentioned at a press convention in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. However he refused to reveal the variety of wounded or lacking, saying Russia might use the knowledge to gauge the variety of Ukraine's energetic forces.
Mr. Zelensky's account couldn’t be independently verified. It differs sharply from the estimates of American officers, who final summer season put the losses a lot larger, saying that almost 70,000 Ukrainians have been killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded. Russian army casualties, officers mentioned, have been about twice as excessive.
Mr Zelensky's uncommon recognition got here as his nation's armed forces are actually behind many of the 600-mile entrance line, with Russian troops urgent assaults to the east and south. . Ukraine's army leaders have lengthy mentioned they want extra troops to repel Russia's relentless onslaught; a mobilization invoice that might pave the way in which for a large-scale draft of as much as 500,000 troops is being handed in Ukraine's Parliament.
