{"id":261931,"date":"2022-12-03T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T07:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261931"},"modified":"2022-12-04T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:42:51","slug":"as-many-as-13000-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-in-war-with-russia-says-zelensky-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261931","title":{"rendered":"As many as 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed in war with Russia, says Zelensky aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

PressTV \u2013 Dec 2, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A top advisor to\u00a0Ukraine’s beleaguered\u00a0president Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0has claimed that as many as 13,000\u00a0Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia launched its military operation\u00a0in the country nine months ago.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mykhailo Podolyak was quoted as saying by\u00a0Ukraine’s Channel 24 on Thursday that they have official information from the army’s general staff, which suggests that the death toll varies between\u00a010,000 and\u00a013,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have official figures from the general staff, we have official figures from the top command, and they amount to (between) 10,000 and 12,500 to 13,000 killed,\u201d Podolyak announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are open in talking about the number of dead,\u201d he added, saying more soldiers had been wounded than had died.<\/p>\n

The number of military casualties has not been confirmed by the country’s\u00a0armed forces and\u00a0Podolyak said Zelenskyy would make the official data public \u201cwhen the right moment comes\u201d.<\/p>\n

In June, as Russian forces were making rapid territorial advances and seizing\u00a0control of the easternmost region of Lugansk, Zelensky claimed that Ukraine was losing between 60 and 100 soldiers a day, putting the toll at the time at 500.<\/p>\n

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also said in September that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed in the protracted\u00a0military conflict.<\/p>\n

Russia launched the\u00a0military operation in Ukraine in late February, following Kiev\u2019s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements and Moscow\u2019s recognition of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.<\/p>\n

At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said one of the goals of what he called a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d was to \u201cde-Nazify\u201d Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Since the operation was launched, Western allies of Kiev have supplied sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine, a move\u00a0that Russia has repeatedly warned\u00a0would only prolong the simmering war.<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom has so far emerged at\u00a0Ukraine’s most dedicated and steadfast arms supporter after the United States.<\/p>\n

Europe\u00a0\u2018not strong enough\u2019, Finnish PM says<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Friday that Europe was\u00a0\u201cnot strong enough\u201d to stand alone against Moscow in a completely honest assessment of Europe’s capabilities in the face of the military conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The leader of the suspended NATO member said on a trip to Italy that the military conflict\u00a0in Ukraine revealed Europe’s weakness and strategic mistakes in dealing with Russia.<\/p>\n

She told Sydney’s Lowy Institute think tank that Europe was not strong enough at the moment and would have a lot of problems without the United States.<\/p>\n

Marin emphasized that Ukraine should be given everything it needs to win the\u00a0war\u00a0and added that the United States currently plays a key role in providing arms and financial aid to the embattled Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n

“We have to make sure that we are also building those capabilities when it comes to European defense, the European defense industry, and making sure that we could cope in different kinds of situations,” she said.<\/p>\n

Since joining the EU in 2004, countries such as Estonia and Poland have urged other EU members to take a tougher stance on Putin, but France, Germany, Italy, and Greece, which favored closer economic ties with Moscow, have opposed the request.<\/p>\n

“We should have listened to our Baltic and Polish friends much sooner,” Marin said. “For a long time, Europe was building a strategy towards Russia to closen our economic ties, to buy energy from Russia… we thought that this would prevent a war.”<\/p>\n

Washington approves $380 million missile sale to Finland<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The US government on Thursday agreed to sell 380 million dollars of Stinger portable anti-aircraft missiles and some other war equipment to Finland.<\/p>\n

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement that it would enhance Finland’s defense and deterrence capabilities.<\/p>\n

The announcement came more than 9 months into the military conflict in Ukraine with\u00a0Finland and Sweden intensifying their NATO membership bid.<\/p>\n

The US State Department approved the possible sale of the military equipment and the DSCA on Thursday notified Congress that the deal should be signed.<\/p>\n

Italy renews Ukraine arms supply law for 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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