Polish PM reveals ‘record’ Ukrainian casualty figures

The Ukrainian military is losing 27,000 soldiers killed and wounded per month, Donald Tusk has said The Ukrainian army is suffering 27,000 casualties a month in the conflict with Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said, offering a rare public assessment of Kiev’s losses. Neither Ukraine nor Russia provides regular updates on its battlefield casualties. Kiev’s Western backers also largely refrain from publicizing exact figures or estimates of how many Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded. Tusk, one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters in Europe, revealed the casualty rate during a speech to the Polish parliament on Thursday. “The new Russian strategy, and above all its new technical capabilities, namely jet-powered drones, are also causing much greater losses on the Ukrainian side,” he said.

Our Ukrainian partners have informed me that recently the monthly figure has been 27,000 killed and wounded, and these are, unfortunately, records in this war, in the saddest sense of the word. If this trend continues, the winter in Ukraine could indeed be catastrophic. This February, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in February 2022. In July, he put the toll at 50,000 killed and 400,000 wounded, with “a huge number” still unaccounted for. EU urging Kiev to mobilize women – Moscow Moscow claims that Ukrainian losses are much higher and has accused Kiev of concealing the true scale from the public. Valery Gerasimov, the Russian chief of the General Staff, said more than 76,000 Ukrainian troops were…