"43,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed, 370,000 Wounded"… Zelensky's Unprecedented Disclosure

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unusually revealed that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the outbreak of the war with Russia.

According to the British BBC on the 8th (local time), President Zelensky made this announcement through Telegram on the same day.

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine. Photo by UPI Yonhap News

Including overlapping counts of the wounded and lightly injured, the number of Ukrainian military casualties reaches 370,000. This is the first time Ukraine has disclosed casualty figures since February. At that time, the death toll was estimated at 31,000, but the scale of the wounded was not revealed.

BBC reported that Ukraine's decision to disclose casualty figures appears to have been influenced by remarks from then U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Earlier, Trump publicly stated on social media that Ukraine had lost 400,000 soldiers and that nearly 600,000 Russians had been killed or wounded.

President Zelensky claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers have died and 550,000 have been wounded. BBC noted that these figures are similar to estimates made by senior Western officials. The West estimates that about 800,000 casualties have occurred in the Russian military. According to the UK Ministry of Defence, an average of 1,523 Russian soldiers are killed or wounded daily. On November 28, for the first time since the start of the war, 2,000 troops were lost in a single day.

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