Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 soldiers killed since conflict with Russia began

Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Sunday February 25 that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the start of the war with Russia. kyiv and Moscow usually refuse to communicate on their respective military losses. “Thirty-one thousand Ukrainian soldiers died in this war. Not 300,000, not 150,000, as people say [Vladimir] Putin and his circle of liars. But each of these losses is a great loss for us.”declared the Ukrainian president during a press conference to mark two years of the Russian invasion.

He also claimed that Russia had managed to get its hands on plans for Ukraine’s summer 2023 counter-offensive before it even began. Questioned by AFP, the presidency confirmed that the Ukrainian president was indeed referring to a leak of information. The failure of this military operation dealt a heavy blow to Ukraine.

Questioned on the possibility of a defeat for kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky replied that “theWhether Ukraine will lose, whether the situation will be very difficult and whether there will be a large number of victims depends on you, our partners, the Western world.”. Ukraine’s allies, whose support is essential to the war effort, have been slow these months to validate new budgetary envelopes to provide more arms and ammunition to kyiv.