In an interview reported by multiple outlets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives updated estimates of wartime losses. He says that about 50,000 Ukrainian service members have been killed since the start of the full-scale war and that around 400,000 have been wounded. Zelensky does not provide a number of soldiers listed as missing, saying he is not willing to disclose those figures because it could help Russia understand conditions within Ukraine’s military.
On the wider scale of casualties, Zelensky also estimates Russia’s total military losses at about 1.6 million, including approximately 700,000 killed. The reporting notes that casualty figures from the war vary widely across sources, including statements from Russian officials and independent analysts, and that independently verifying battlefield casualty numbers remains difficult.
