June 10, 2022
Zelensky Aide Says Ukraine Now Losing Up to 200 Troops a Day
Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Thursday (June 9) that Ukraine is losing between 100 and 200 troops in the fighting against Russia each day.
The estimate is higher than the one offered by Zelensky last week, who said Ukraine was losing between 60 and 100 troops each day.
Until last week, Kyiv had not been offering casualty rates, but now it seems Ukrainian officials are sharing their battlefield losses to get more arms from the West.
“The Russian forces have thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear at the front and that includes heavy artillery, multiple rocket launch systems and aviation,” Podolyak told reporters.
Podolyak also told BBC that Ukraine would only resume peace talks with Russia if Moscow surrendered the territory it has gained since the invasion started on February 24.
Podolyak had led the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with Russia earlier in the war.
