“I don’t know if I’ve a proper to inform you the numbers of our losses. Each single individual is a tragedy,” he stated, including, “31,000 [members] of Ukraine’s army have been killed throughout this warfare.”
The final time Ukraine publicly disclosed the variety of troops misplaced was in December 2022, when an adviser to Zelensky stated that as much as 13,000 troops had been killed. Kyiv retains casualty figures carefully guarded in order to not dampen public morale. However the numbers have been believed to have climbed considerably as Ukraine fought to push again Russian forces and several other battles settled into grinding stalemates.
Zelensky additionally stated that Russia had suffered 500,000 casualties, together with 180,000 troops killed in motion, however neither determine might be independently verified.
Final 12 months, a leaked Pentagon doc labeled prime secret and dated Feb. 21, 2023, included an evaluation of army casualties. It stated U.S. officers believed that between 15,500 and 17,000 Ukrainian troopers had been killed, with a further 106,500 to 110,500 wounded.
The identical evaluation stated that between 35,000 and 42,500 Russian troopers had been killed and 150,500 to 177,000 had been wounded. These figures have been in keeping with latest assessments by Western officers, who’ve stated that greater than 200,000 Russian troopers in all probability have been killed or wounded.