- February 16, 2025
- 10:11 pm
- Ukraine
In addition to the dead and wounded, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost tens of thousands of fighters as prisoners and missing.
The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky called the number of losses of the Ukrainian army in a full -scale war with Russia, which lasts almost three years.
He said about this on February 16, 2025 in an interview NBC News.
“We recorded losses: 46 thousand dead military. There are also tens of thousands of missing or captivity. You can’t know for sure, because the missing people can be dead either in captivity, and this is tens of thousands, this is true, ”Zelensky said.
In addition, 350 thousand military were wounded, and 19,500 children were deported to itself. At the same time, Ukraine does not know how many people died in the occupation, because after the de -captain of the settlements, graves were found in which or half a thousand bodies were found.
In addition, according to the Ukrainian president, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost tens of thousands of fighters as prisoners and missing.
“You can’t know for sure, because the missing can be dead or captured,” he said.
Also, Vladimir Zelensky added that the exact number of civilian people who died in the occupied territories is not known.
“When Russia attacked and surrounded the cities, destroying them, we do not know the number of dead. Unfortunately, in the liberated cities we found mass burials. They carried out mass shootings and torture. In towns with several thousand residents, 500 bodies were found in one grave. We do not know how many thousands they killed, ”he explained.
By the way, in early February 2025, Zelensky stated that 45,100 Ukrainian military were killed in the war against Russia. At the same time, the military was injured 390 thousand times.
Losses of Ukraine and Russia in the war
The losses of Ukraine in the war are a state secret. The losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are also classified.
The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky first called the number of dead Ukrainian military on February 25 at a press conference as part of the forum “Ukraine. Year 2024 “. According to him, 31 thousand Ukrainian military died in this war.
According to him, the Russian Federation lost 180 thousand people who died, it is not possible to calculate the missing people. In general, the losses of the invaders are up to 500 thousand along with the wounded.
According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), at the end of February 2023, the total loss of the Russian Federation killed and wounded amounted to 200-250 thousand, including 60-70 thousand dead (including losses of self -proclaimed DPR and LPR and mercenaries “Wagner”).
The losses of the Russian Federation for the year of the war with Ukraine exceeded the losses of the USSR and Russia in all wars after the Second World War, combined. The pace of loss is also much larger than in past wars: in Chechnya, during the first and second Chechen wars, the Russian army lost from 95 to 185 people a month, in Afghanistan – 130-145, in Ukraine – 5-5.8 thousand killed per month Writes Wikipedia.
