Russia has lost eight times as many soldiers as Ukraine since Moscow launched its latest offensive in the northeastern province of Kharkiv two weeks ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Saturday.
Russia has lost eight times as many soldiers as Ukraine since Moscow launched its latest offensive in the northeastern province of Kharkiv two weeks ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday.
Zelensky said the mass casualties on the battlefield prove Russian President Vladimir Putin “has absolutely no regard for human life,” in an interview with Kazakh media outlet Vlast.
He put the number of Russian soldiers were killed in Kharkiv since May 10 between 2,000 and 3,000 .
“Their breakthrough in the direction of Kharkiv,” Zelensky said, resulted in “military casualties of one to eight – one Ukrainian to eight Russians,” he said, adding that Putin “doesn’t care at all.”
Separately, Zelensky said Ukranian forces had taken back areas Russian troops attempted to conquer over the past two weeks.
“Our soldiers have now managed to take combat control of the border area where the Russian occupiers entered,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Friday evening.
