As many as 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded their country in February, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday (December 1st). “We have official estimates from the General Staff (…) They range from 10,000 (…) to 13,000 dead.Mykhailo Podoliak, one of Zelensky’s advisers, said on the air of Ukrainian Channel 24. According to him, the head of the country will publish the official data.”when the time is right“.
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As Russian forces battled to fully capture eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region in June, Vladimir Zelensky said his country was losing.Between 60 and 100 soldiers are killed in action every day and around 500 are wounded in action.“. On the other hand, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced in September that 5,937 Russian soldiers had died since the beginning of the conflict on February 24. Both adversaries are suspected of minimizing the scale of their casualties to avoid straining the morale of their troops.
US Chief of Staff General Mark Milley estimated in November that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers had been killed or wounded since the invasion, and that losses were likely to be similar on the Ukrainian side. These figures, which cannot be independently verified, are the most accurate yet reported by the US government. Several thousand civilians have also been killed in Europe’s worst armed conflict in decades.
Source: Le Figaro
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