Reference News Network on February 26** Comprehensive TASS and Reuters on February 25**, Ukraine** Zelensky said on the 25th that since February 2022, the Ukrainian army has lost 310,000 people. This is the first time in more than a year that Ukraine has disclosed official data.
Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv, Zelensky said: "There have been 310,000 Ukrainian servicemen died in this war. Not 300,000, not 150,000 ......Putin is lying......Either way, it's a huge loss for us. Zelensky also said that he could not disclose the data on the wounded, so as not to help Russia with military planning.
The report says that Ukraine has not disclosed data on military losses since the end of 2022.
In response to the data disclosed by Zelensky, Russian spokeswoman Zakharova pointed out on the "Telegram" social platform that the Ukrainian people know that Ukraine lied about the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the special military operation.
According to TASS, Zakharova noted: "It is clear to every Ukrainian, first of all every Ukrainian serviceman, that Zelensky is lying." In the past, 'Ze**' did not treat the Russian-speaking residents of the Donbas region as human beings, and now he does not even regard the residents of other regions of Ukraine as human beings. ”
Zakharova believes that for Zelensky, Ukrainian citizens "are not people, but individual units that can be used to obtain Western funds." "I think that makes sense: he has greatly underestimated his losses and kept so many 'dead souls' in the ranks of the Ukrainian army in order to get funding as if they were alive," she said. And the gangs of robbers in Kyiv will continue to deposit money in accounts abroad. ”
Douglas McGregor, who served as an adviser to the US Secretary of Defense during the Trump administration, reportedly said in an interview that at least 300,000 to 350,000 Ukrainian troops were killed.
According to the report, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu noted in December last year that since the start of the special military operation, the total number of Ukrainian troops has exceeded 3830,000 people. (Compiled by Li Ran, Zhao Zhipeng).