Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion two years ago, giving the first official figure for more than a year.
Zelenskyy told a news conference in Kyiv that he could not disclose the number of wounded because it would help Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country’s military planning.
“Thirty thousand Ukrainian troops have been killed in this war,” he said.
“Not 300,000, not 150,000 … Putin is lying there … But nevertheless, this is a big loss for us.”
Ukraine has not put a number to its military losses since the end of 2022,
