In a rare official announcement regarding the military casualties incurred during the two-year conflict, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died in the conflict with Russia. At a press conference in Kyiv on Sunday, Zelensky said: “31,000 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.”
As the conflict reached its third year, Zelenskyy made the comments at a conference in Kyiv one day after foreign leaders showed support for Kyiv in its struggle against Russian soldiers.
Up until recently, Ukraine had not released an official death toll from the conflict.
In the meantime, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov reported that half of the Western military supplies to Kyiv arrived late while the country struggles with a scarcity of ammunition. He issued a warning, saying that Russia was benefiting from the delays.
