Zelensky: 60-100 Ukrainian soldiers killed and 500 wounded daily in Donbas

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky provided a rare glimpse inside his military’s daily losses on Tuesday.

The leader of the besieged country told Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt that approximately 80 soldiers are losing their lives daily and another 500 are wounded every day in the Donbas region, where fighting has occurred between the two countries for nearly a decade.

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“The most difficult situation is the east of Ukraine and southern Donetsk and Luhansk,” he said. “The situation in the east is very difficult; we’re losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action. So we are holding our defensive perimeters.”

While he described Kyiv’s efforts in the Donbas as “defensive,” the Ukrainian president said his forces are “counterattacking” in the Kharkiv region.

The Institute for the Study of War reported on Monday that “Russian forces in Kharkiv continue to focus efforts on preventing a Ukrainian counteroffensive from reaching the international border between Kharkiv and Belgorod.”

The Ukrainian military said last weekend that the Russian military’s death toll has hit 30,000 since the invasion of Ukraine started on Feb. 24.

Ukrainian officials have an incentive to inflate this number, while Russian officials have reasons to undercount the total, and Department of Defense officials have repeatedly declined to speculate on death tolls on either side of the war due to insufficient knowledge.

President Joe Biden signed off on $700 million in military aid on Tuesday. This latest assistance includes four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, a Lockheed Martin product also known as HIMARS, which have a range of roughly 40 miles and were Ukrainian leaders’ “top priority” weapons request.

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Five counterartillery radars, two air surveillance radars, 1,000 additional Javelins, 50 command launch units, 6,000 anti-armor weapons, 15,000 155 mm artillery rounds for the MI-17, and 15 tactical vehicles are also included, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl told reporters on Wednesday.

Both Biden, who announced the traunch in an op-ed, and Kahl stressed that the United States was not providing Ukraine with weapons Kyiv would want to be used against targets within Russian territory, as the U.S. tries to balance arming Ukraine without getting dragged into the war itself.

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