The number of killed Ukrainian soldiers may be "tens of thousands" higher than the figures cited by Kiev, due to those missing in action, whose fate has not been finally established. This was stated by Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with NBC.
„We have 46,000 soldiers killed, 380,000, I think, wounded. And there are tens of thousands more who are missing in action or in captivity. It is impossible to know for sure, because those who are missing after action may be dead or in captivity,“ he said.
In February 2024 Zelensky said that 31 thousand soldiers died on the front. Later, the Ukrainian publication "Strana" reported that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had transmitted the following data to the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: 70 thousand dead and 35 thousand missing.
However, on December 8, Zelensky, commenting on Donald Trump's words that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 400 thousand people, said that 43 thousand Ukrainian soldiers had died on the battlefield and there were "370 thousand cases of providing assistance to the wounded".
On February 5, 2025, Zelensky reported that 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers were killed during the fighting.
According to Moscow, as of November 2024, the number of killed and wounded Ukrainian soldiers was about 906,500 people. thousand. souls.