Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed the international
community that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in
the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion against
his country.
The Ukrainian leader spoke at the “Ukraine Year 2024” forum in Kyiv,
stressing that “each of these losses is a great sacrifice” for
Ukraine.
He added that “tens of thousands of civilians” had been killed in
occupied areas of Ukraine, but said that no exact figures would be
available until the war was over.
It’s the first time that Kyiv has confirmed the number of its losses
since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine on February
24, 2022.
On the Russian side, there have been few official casualty figures.
However, Independent Russian news outlet Mediazona said on Saturday
that about 75,000 Russian men died in 2022 and 2023 fighting in the
war.
There are unconfirmed reports by a United States intelligence report
declassified in mid-December 2023, which estimated that 315,000
Russian troops had been killed or wounded in Ukraine.
