“I don’t know if I’ve a proper to let you know the numbers of our losses. Each single individual is a tragedy,” he mentioned, including, “31,000 [members] of Ukraine’s navy had been killed throughout this battle.”
The final time Ukraine publicly disclosed the variety of troops misplaced was in December 2022, when an adviser to Zelensky mentioned that as much as 13,000 troops had been killed. Kyiv retains casualty figures intently guarded in order to not dampen public morale. However the numbers had been believed to have climbed considerably as Ukraine fought to push again Russian forces and several other battles settled into grinding stalemates.
Zelensky additionally mentioned that Russia had suffered 500,000 casualties, together with 180,000 troops killed in motion, however neither determine may very well be independently verified.
Final yr, a leaked Pentagon doc labeled prime secret and dated Feb. 21, 2023, included an evaluation of navy casualties. It mentioned U.S. officers believed that between 15,500 and 17,000 Ukrainian troopers had been killed, with an extra 106,500 to 110,500 wounded.
The identical evaluation mentioned that between 35,000 and 42,500 Russian troopers had been killed and 150,500 to 177,000 had been wounded. These figures had been in keeping with current assessments by Western officers, who’ve mentioned that greater than 200,000 Russian troopers in all probability have been killed or wounded.
