Thanks to the new armament, losses have been significantly reduced.
and 250 wounded. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi told this in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“I can tell you exactly because I live with it every day,” the president said, while refusing to name the exact number of losses. referring to a military secret.
At the height of hostilities in May and June, Ukraine lost between 100 and 200 servicemen.
According to Zelenskyi, the recent supply of weapons by the US and its allies, in particular, rocket launcher systems fire of “HIMARS” and 155-mm howitzers, helped to restrain Russia's offensive in Donbas and stabilize the situation there.
If earlier the Russians fired 12 thousand artillery shells daily against 1000-2000 shells from the Ukrainian army, now Ukraine can produce about 6,000 shells per day, on the other hand, Russia is beginning to experience a shortage of ammunition and personnel.
It is this change in the balance of firepower, Zelensky is convinced, that stopped Ukrainian losses.
He also stated , that the stabilization of laziness front in Donbas will allow Ukraine to advance in other directions. However, where and when Ukraine plans to launch a counteroffensive, Zelenskyi did not inform in the interview.
In June, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov reported that every day Ukraine's armed forces lose up to 100 soldiers killed and up to 500 wounded.
At the same time, according to Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, the number of dead in the aggressor's army is tens of thousands.
