Mikhail Bodolyak, a senior aide to President Zhelensky, says Ukraine loses 100 to 200 troops daily in Russia’s war offensive.
Mikhail Bodolyak, a senior aide to President Zhelensky, told the BBC News that the Ukrainian army was losing 100 to 200 soldiers a day as thousands of soldiers, civilians and children from both countries were killed in the four-month-long war between Ukraine and Russia.
He also accused Russia of throwing all its weapons at Ukraine, including its heavy artillery, multiple rocket launch systems and air strikes, except for nuclear weapons.
He also said that Russian troops were intensifying their offensive in an attempt to capture the entire Donbass region, and that Ukrainian troops were defending Kyrgyzstan from the daily incessant bombings.
He called it a “complete lack of balance” compared to Russia’s weapons, and called on the West to provide more weapons to Ukraine.
On that basis, he said, Ukraine would need an additional 150 to 300 rocket launching systems to equalize with Russia.
Following this, Mikhail Bodolyak spoke about the peace talks, saying that Ukraine would only co-operate with the peace talks if it returned the territory it had seized from Ukraine and returned to pre-February 24 levels.
He also said that Ukraine was losing 100 to 200 soldiers a day in the ongoing conflict, which was higher than previous estimates.
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Earlier on Thursday, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov reported that Ukraine was losing at least 100 soldiers a day and up to 500 wounded.