Posted on 02/25/2024 9:51:32 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Around 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been recorded as killed by Russia's war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the "Ukraine. Year 2024" forum in Kyiv on Feb. 25.
"Each person is a very big loss for us. 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers died in this war," the president said. "It is very painful for us."
The announcement is the first time Zelensky has publicly stated a figure on the death toll of Ukrainian soldiers since the start of the full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian government has kept a tight lid on casualty numbers during the war.
Zelensky did not clarify if the number covers the entire 10 years of Russian aggression against Ukraine or is just for the last two years of the full-scale invasion. The number is also those that have been officially accounted for as killed in the war. The actual figure is likely to be higher.
He also said that 180,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the war, and that along with the wounded, Russia has suffered 500,000 casualties.
"I won't say how many wounded (Ukrainians) there are because Russia will know how many people have left the battlefield."
Independent Russian media outlets Meduza and Mediazona reported in a joint study on Feb. 24 that 83,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Russia's war.
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Russia is engaging in a war of attrition.and Zelensky has been obliging the Russians with a daiy supply of soon to be dead meat.
THe personal insults directed at you are well deserved.
Things are worse than I thought. Only lost 31,000 and he’s short on troops. Not good. I guess all the men left the country.
They only happen because you Russian apologists are threatened by the truth that Russia keeps losing
Please volunteer to fight for the Ukraine, we need a front-line blogger to keep us up to date on the RuZZZZZZZZZZZZian orcs.
Well, that’s just zeeper pron.
Another big-tent, neocon paleo-cuckservative just shot his mouth off.
Umm, why is he saying he desperately needs to mobilize 500,000 more Uke men and boys to sacrifice on the Globohomo altar? Without this cannon fodder, Z has stated, Russia will win this year. Laughable crap like this would cause Baghdad Bob or Karine Jean Pierre to blush.
Why don’t we ask the 14 million Ukrainians that have fled their own country...
Dang, what a ratio!
Ukrainian men have all fled to Canada. I hope canuck_conservative welcomes them with open arms, and offers them a place to stay.
You’re also lying. And?
You guys wants some miggies? We’ve got an overabundance of them and need to get rid of a lot of them or they’ll be no way America will have a fair election in November.
Get off Zs pecker. Good grief.
From the same individual who labels people on FR "Russian apologists," because they don't want anymore tax payer dollars spent on yet another proxy war.
Clean up your own act Bub!
Sure. That’s why Ukrainian officials have admitted the Ukrainian military is 500,000 troops short of what it needs.
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Sounds like zelensky will be needing some replacements to fill the ranks & keep the population levels up?
Maybe brandon & klaus can redirect some young military aged men from chyna, venezuela, senegal, mid east into the uke to help keep the war going?
If you do a 5 to 1 wounded to killed that equates to 180K casualties. Maybe half the 150 K are hors de combat. Add the numbers of Ukie men who’ve found their way to Hungary, Romania, Greece and Italy and you have a good explanation for the Ukie manpower deficiency. Of course if you double the KIA everything gets worse.
I met Lori Petty. She was kind of a bitch.
Sounds like Zelensky and Biden both graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Machiavelli school of lying, cheating and deceiving.
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