Overview

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview that 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers have died and 390,000 have been injured during the war with Russia.
• The figures were shared during an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, published on Tuesday evening.
• Both Ukrainian and Russian governments rarely disclose their own casualty numbers, and independent verification of such figures is challenging.
• Western intelligence estimates suggest up to 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers and more than double that number of Russian soldiers have died since the war began nearly three years ago.
• The war has also resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, predominantly on the Ukrainian side, as the conflict continues with no resolution in sight.