“About 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen” have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said Saturday during a press conference in Kiev.
“We have about 1,300 dead soldiers”declared the Ukrainian president, without giving more details about this balance, the first given by the Ukrainian authorities since the beginning of the conflict on February 24.
Zelensky also said that the Russian army had lost “around 12,000 men”, in a “ratio of one to ten, which, however, does not make me happy”, he declared.
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On March 2, the Russian army (which mobilized some 150,000 soldiers) claimed to have lost 500 soldiers, a figure that has not been updated since then.
With heavy fighting in many cities across the country, most notably the siege of the Sea of Azov port city of Mariupol and nearby Kiev, the Pentagon estimated on March 8 that Russian losses ranged between 2,000 and 4,000 soldiers
