KYIV. UkraineGate , 16 , June , 2022 | Poliyical News.
According to the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the talks with Russia, People’s Deputy David Arahamiya, Ukraine is losing up to 1,000 people in the Donbass every day. Axios quotes the Ukrainian official .
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“Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers die or are wounded daily in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, with an average of 200 to 500 killed and many more wounded,” Axios quoted Arahamiya as saying.
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Thus, on June 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that 60 to 100 Ukrainian servicemen were killed every day as Russia stepped up its offensive on Donbas.
In the last two weeks, according to Arahamiya, this number has increased significantly.
According to him, Ukraine “has drafted a million people into the army and can recruit another two million,” Axios writes, so it has the numbers to continue the fight in Donbass.
Arahamiya claims that Ukraine lacks weapons and ammunition to catch up with Russia in “one of the greatest battles of the 21st century.” According to him, “we have people trained to attack, counterattack, but for this we need weapons.”
“Our negotiating position is actually quite weak, so we do not want to sit at the negotiating table if we are in this situation. We need to change it somehow,” Arahamiya said, stressing the need for a counter-operation to retake the temporarily occupied territories.
He said that Ukraine’s partners – especially in Europe – are beginning to focus on replenishing their own reserves, rather than arming Ukraine. Arahamiya also noted that the German government is still very reluctant to approve Ukraine’s arms export licenses, possibly out of “internal fear” of Russia.
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On Wednesday, General Mark Millie, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked about the number of Ukrainian casualties, and said it was difficult to estimate, but previous media reports of about 100 killed and 300 wounded daily were “within our estimates.”
Millie also said that Russia had suffered “huge” losses and that Ukraine was conducting effective hostilities.
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A week earlier, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov noted that the situation at the front is difficult, voicing daily losses.
Source: Ukrgate
