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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Baghdad Bob was more credible.
More like a million. If it was only what Zelensky says, they wouldn’t be low on soldiers.
He is such a creep and liar.
Elensky didn't include Ukie Tank Girl, who scraped her elbow on the hatch of her tank, and mussed her eyeliner while she was single-handedly destroying another Russian armored division of T-90 tanks [well, it was her and the Ghost of Kiev].
The slop from the Media that the zeepers gulp down is unbelievable.
You’re lying
otherwise Russia would have won by now
The casualty counts derive largely from artillery and guided bombs.
Big death numbers do not come from drones because they don’t have payload capacity for substantial explosions.
Artillery shells and bombs.
In the case of artillery, there are casualty generation models available for all forces around the world. A good estimate for deaths per shell for various presumed accuracies can be computed — provided you know your own weaponry well.
Russia does. Ukraine doesn’t. The stuff arrives, they get trained, there is no accurate modeling.
So Russia has a pretty good picture of Ukraine losses. The reverse is not true.
Closer to 1 million
other reports claim an entire generation of Ukrainian men are lost. And that with the Ukrainian migrants to other nations is a serious concern for the future of the nation as these losses are from the ages which reproduce future generations and also produce the workforce.
They have to lie to keep up the enthusiasm of their useful idiots.
Is it believable Ukraine has had 42 KIA per day?
The fantastic news is that your Marxist leader - who is probably a pedo - just signed a defense pact with Ukraine!
You can EASILY go enlist to fight Putin!
I am looking forward to reports of your heroism!
The fantastic news is that your Marxist leader - who is probably a pedo - just signed a defense pact with Ukraine!
You can EASILY go enlist to fight Putin!
I am looking forward to reports of your heroism!
Nobody believes this guy and nobody believes Putin. The difference is our own government is gaslighting people into a binary situation where if you’re against US involvement, you’re labeled as pro-Putin.
It’s amazing how FR, an erstwhile patriotic, pro-Chrisitian forum has been taken over by pro-Russian bots
You surely know, but I never hear you say anything about all Zelensky needs to do to get aid and why doesn’t the coward do it.
I never hear him demand Biden and the RATs just shut the American border please.
It is always the other way around. Give us money and the people stopping that are bad guys.
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