At first, the Ukrainian leader was asked about how many Russians were killed during the war.
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“Their losses are 1.6 million. About 700 thousand were killed,” said V. Zelensky.
Then the president was asked about the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces, V. Zelensky first noted that he would not want to be too open on this issue so as not to give the Russians the opportunity to understand the current situation in the Ukrainian army.
“About 50 thousand soldiers have died on our side. And about 400 thousand wounded. In addition, there is a huge number of missing persons,” the Ukrainian leader worried.
Earlier, The New York Times reported that over four years of the large-scale Russian war against Ukraine, more than 2 million Russian and Ukrainian soldiers were killed or wounded.
In February 2024, V. Zelensky stated that 31 thousand soldiers had died on the Ukrainian side. After two years, he reported that 55 thousand Ukrainian soldiers had died during the war.
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