In this image from video provided by the Press Office of the President of Ukraine and posted to Facebook early Saturday, March 12, 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine. Press Office of the President of Ukraine via Associated Press
Zelenskyi told CNN that Ukraine has lost between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers since the war began.
In comparison, the Russians lost between 19,000 and 20,000, he said.
Zelenskyy did not have an estimate for civilian casualties as some areas of the country are still under siege.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN on Friday that he estimates the country has lost between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers since the war began in February.
“As for our military, we believe that from the numbers we have, we lost 2,500-3,000 compared to the Russian military, which lost about 19-20,000,” Zelenskyy said. “That’s the comparison. But we’ve got around 10,000 injured and it’s hard to say how many will survive.”
Insider has not been able to independently verify these numbers, but an anonymous NATO member estimated in late March that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have died in the conflict.
“From now on, based on the information we have, because it’s very difficult to talk about civilians since the south of our country where the cities are blocked,” added Zelenskyy, who couldn’t estimate the number of civilian casualties.
“Kherson, Beridansk, Mariupol, further east, the area to the east where Volnovakha is located, we just don’t know how many people died in this closed area.”
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has so far registered 4,232 civilian casualties in Ukraine, but says “the actual numbers are significantly higher,” partly due to the blockades in parts of the country described by Zelenskyy.
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