“Since the start of the full-scale warfare, Ukraine has misplaced 43,000 troopers who died on the battlefield,” plus 370,000 who’ve been wounded, Zelenskyy stated in his put up. “And that is bearing in mind that in our military roughly 50 p.c of the wounded return to service, and all accidents are recorded, together with minor and repeated ones,” he stated.
“And let’s not neglect we managed to return 3,767 warriors from Russian captivity,” Zelenskyy added.
The Ukrainian figures examine with 600,000 lifeless and wounded reported for the Russian facet. Zelenskyy insists that Moscow’s losses are bigger than that.
“Updated knowledge on Russian losses exceed 750,000 of their folks. This is 198,000 Russians killed and greater than 550,000 wounded,” the Ukrainian president stated. Since September Russia has been dropping 5 – 6 troops for each Ukrainian soldier misplaced in battle, he added.
Zelenskyy reiterated his push for a “simply peace” that features ensures for Ukraine in opposition to a renewal of Russian aggression sooner or later.
“A cease-fire with out ensures [means conflict] might be reignited at any second, as Putin has already carried out so,” Zelenskyy stated. “To assure that there will probably be no extra Ukrainian casualties, we should assure the reliability of peace and never flip a blind eye to the occupation,” he added.
