{"id":5514,"date":"2024-02-25T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/zelensky-says-31000-troops-killed-in-war-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:03:08","slug":"zelensky-says-31000-troops-killed-in-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/zelensky-says-31000-troops-killed-in-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says 31,000 troops killed in war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Ukrainian president said he would not give the number of wounded as that would help Russian military planning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Typically, Ukrainian officials do not make casualty figures public, and other estimates are much higher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It comes after the defence minister said half of all Western aid for Ukraine has been delayed, costing lives and territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mr Zelensky said on Sunday that he was providing an updated death toll in response to the inflated figures that Russia has quoted.<\/div>\n
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\u201c31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in this war. Not 300,000 or 150,000, or whatever Putin and his lying circle are saying. But each of these losses is a great loss for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking about the wider losses in the war, Mr Zelensky said tens of thousands of civilians had died in the areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia but the true number was unknown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know how many of them died, how many were killed, how many were murdered, tortured, how many were deported.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is rare for Ukraine to provide a military death toll, and other estimates suggest a much higher number.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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US officials in August put the\u00a0number of Ukrainian soldiers killed at 70,000 and as many as 120,000 injured<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In terms of Russian losses, Mr Zelensky said 180,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and tens of thousands more injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BBC Russian, in a joint project with the Mediazona website, has established the names of\u00a0more than 45,000 Russian servicepeople who had died.<\/a>\u00a0But it estimates the total number to be greater than that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In February, the UK\u2019s defence ministry estimated that 350,000 Russian troops had been killed or injured.<\/div>\n
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President Zelensky\u2019s address came after his defence minister, Rustam Umerov, called out the country\u2019s Western allies for delays in military aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAt the moment, commitment does not constitute delivery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ukraine is currently experiencing a variety of setbacks in its mission to drive Russia from its territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Umerov said that the lack of supplies put Ukraine at a further disadvantage \u201cin the mathematics of war\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe do everything possible and impossible but without timely supply it harms us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Germany warned in November<\/a>\u00a0that a European Union (EU) plan to deliver a million artillery shells by March would not be met.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In January, the EU said just over half of these would reach Ukraine by the deadline and that the promised amount would not be there until the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Zelensky said one of the reasons Ukraine\u2019s highly anticipated counter-offensive last year did not start earlier was the lack of weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That counter-offensive largely failed<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 one of a number of setbacks Kyiv has faced after some early successes in repelling Russia after it invaded in February 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Zelensky also suggested on Sunday that plans for the counter-offensive were leaked to Russia ahead of time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, it was announced that\u00a0Ukrainian troops had withdrawn from the key eastern town of Avdiivka<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Moscow\u2019s biggest win in months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Zelensky also blamed this partly on faltering Western weapon supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Biden administration, meanwhile, has said the hold-up in Congress of a $60bn aid package for Ukraine contributed to the fall of the town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Western leaders travelled to Kyiv on Saturday in a show of solidarity with Ukraine as the country marked two years since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There, it was announced that Italy and Canada had signed security deals with Ukraine \u2013 bolstering support until the country could join Nato.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Canada\u2019s deal included more than three billion Canadian dollars (\u00a31.7bn) in financial and defence aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is not only Ukraine that is having trouble resourcing its military activities.\u00a0Russia is also struggling to provide ammunition and weapons<\/a>, according to Western officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cRussia\u2019s domestic ammunition production capabilities are currently insufficient for meeting the needs of the Ukraine conflict,\u201d a Western official claimed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They added that Moscow has been able to increase its supply only by seeking out alternative sources of ammunition and weapons, which do not offer a long-term solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian president said he would not give the number of wounded as that would help Russian military planning. Typically, Ukrainian officials do not make casualty figures public, and other estimates are much higher. It comes after the defence minister said half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}