Zelensky called The Wall Street Journal's information about the number of dead Ukrainian fighters a lie
The Wall Street Journal wrote that Ukraine's alleged losses in the war amount to 80,000 military personnel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the information of foreign journalists about the number of Ukrainian fighters killed in the war with Russia is not true. The head of state says that the real losses are "much less". The resident said this at a meeting with Ukrainian journalists on 20 September.
80 thousand? This is a lie. The real figure is much less than the one that was published. Significantly," Zelensky reported.
Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal published an article in which it estimated the total losses of Ukraine and Russia in the war at 1 million people (including those injured). At the same time, Ukraine would allegedly have lost 80,000 military personnel, while Russia would have lost 200,000. The newspaper pointed out that it had proceeded from the secret intelligence data at its disposal.
We shall remind you that Ukraine's losses were not officially disclosed for a long time. Only in February this year, Zelensky announced them for the first time: according to him, 31,000 Ukrainian servicemen died during the two years of full-scale war. He did not name the number of wounded so that Russia did not know how many people Ukraine had on the battlefield.