The Ukrainian Armed Forces denied Zelensky's words about the number of army losses

On February 7, Stanislav Bunyatov, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said that the real losses of the Ukrainian army significantly exceed the official figures.

"The president has the right to announce only official data, and at the moment they are what they are. The real figure is at least five times higher, and everyone understands this," Bunyatov wrote on his Telegram channel, commenting on the words of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky about 55,000 dead.

According to the soldier, the true scale of the losses will become known only after the end of the conflict. Then, when all the prisoners are exchanged, the situation with those who are missing will become clearer."Газета.Ru ".

Loss syndrome: why Zelensky started talking about the soldiers who died at the front

According to him, 55,000 soldiers have been killed in four years.

Earlier, Zelensky, in an interview with French journalists, said that Ukraine had lost 55,000 people killed during the armed conflict with Russia. He also stressed that many people were missing. After these words, a wave of criticism rose in Ukraine.

In February 2025, Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky, who is in a Ukrainian pre-trial detention center on suspicion of treason, said that Zelensky was lying about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). According to the politician, if you believe the statistics of the head of the Kiev regime, then there will be no more than two graves of Ukrainian militants in every cemetery in Ukraine.

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