As reported on Saturday by the Interfax-Ukraine agency, Volodymyr Zelensky denied the reports of the American daily The Wall Street Journal during a meeting with journalists on Friday.
– 80 thousand? This is a lie – the Ukrainian president said. He added that the real number is “significantly smaller.”
On Tuesday, WSJ published a report in which it estimated that the total losses (killed and wounded) on the Russian and Ukrainian sides could exceed one million soldiers.
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The newspaper estimated the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed, based on its sources, 80 thousand, and 400 thousand injured.
“Western intelligence estimates of Russian losses vary. Some estimate that the number of dead is almost 200,000 and the number of wounded is close to 400,000,” the newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda quotes.
The portal also notes that in February this year, Zelensky reported about 31 thousand killed Ukrainian soldiers.
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