Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine: We have lost 500,000 soldiers

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, the former head of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, asked the country’s government to announce the actual statistics of military casualties of the war.

According to today’s report of Rasha Todi, in an interview with Ukrainian media on Wednesday, he said that the authorities should honestly admit that they have lost 500,000 troops since the beginning of the conflict, and the monthly casualty rate is about 30,000 people.

According to him, the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can “publicly admit the heavy casualties on the battlefield and declare that the existence of Ukraine is in danger”, unwilling citizens encourage to join the war against Russia. He said: “Ukrainians should know how many people have been killed, and then all issues regarding the mobilization of forces will be resolved.”

Zelensky said in December that the military asked him to mobilize an additional 450,000 to 500,000 troops to make up for shortages on the battlefield. At the end of the same month, the Ukrainian government presented a bill on the mobilization of the military, in which it was proposed to lower the recruitment age from 27 to 25 and to remove exemptions for some categories of disabled people.

The plan came after Kiev launched its counter-offensive against Russian forces with the aim of driving them out of Ukraine in the summer, but despite much publicity There has been no significant achievement.

Moscow has described the casualties and damage in Kiev as catastrophic and estimated it at around 160,000 troops since the beginning of these counterattacks. Ukraine, however, has shown no desire to clarify in this regard and officially publish its casualty statistics.

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