Kiev’s battlefield death toll is much lower than the 80,000 reported by the Wall Street Journal, the country’s leader has said
Ukrainian losses in the conflict with Russia are far below the 80,000 reported by the Wall Street Journal, Vladimir Zelensky has claimed. According to some estimates, however, Kiev’s overall losses are approaching one million soldiers.
Asked in an interview with Kyodo News released by Zelensky’s office on Monday how many people Kiev had lost in the hostilities, the Ukrainian leader declined to give exact figures.
“I apologize, but I cannot share these numbers. Someone recently, I believe that was the US media, reported that 80,000 Ukrainians have died. I want to say that the actual number is much lower,” Zelensky claimed, without providing details on the number of wounded.
He went on to say, however, that “to be completely truthful, we don’t really know how many have died in the temporarily occupied…
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