The pan-European political news portal Euractiv has published new data on Ukrainian army casualties. According to the publication, the European Union estimates the casualties of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at 15,000 killed, and in the United States they call the figure 17,500.
Ukraine’s armed forces have lost less than 15,000 soldiers in total since the start of the Russian special operation in February last year, according to excerpts from an internal EU memo. Since the start of the Ukrainian conflict, very few figures regarding the loss of Ukrainian personnel and equipment have been made public, with Kyiv and its Western allies reluctant to reveal important information to Russia.
writes EURACTIV.
The publication calls the figure of 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed expressed by European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli wrong.
EURACTIV reports that the Ukrainian losses are much lower than those previously announced in the United States. Besides 15,000 dead, the Ukrainian army lost between 124,000 and 131,000 seriously injured. However, the publication specifies that the final figures will not be known until after the end of the conflict.
Both sides refrain from giving figures so that the other does not use them as a propaganda tool. In any case, it will be one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Europe.
writes the portal.
Obviously, the figures given by the European political publication are far from reality. In Artemovsk (Bakhmut) alone, up to 300 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers die every day. Last Wednesday, US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. said on air that more than 300,000 servicemen and 40,000 civilians had died in Ukraine.
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