The losses the Ukrainians have endured are “horrible” and will be revealed at the end of the war according to Kiev’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
RT:
Ukraine will reveal the extent of its “horrible” losses once its conflict with Russia is over, Vadim Pristaiko, Kiev’s ambassador to the UK, said in an interview released on Friday.
Asked by British tabloid the Daily Express to comment on casualties among Ukrainian military personnel and civilians, Pristaiko said “it has been our policy from the start not to discuss our losses.”
“When the war is over, we will acknowledge this. I think it will be a horrible number,” he added.
Pristaiko dismissed any possibility of talks between Moscow and Kiev – at least until Russia withdraws its troops from the territories Ukraine claims as its own. “So, we have to fight to the very last of them or, very unfortunately, the last of us as well,” the envoy said.
Nobody knows the exact losses but they are certainly in the hundreds of thousands. The EU stated publicly that it was 100,000 months ago and that number was most certainly a purposefully low estimate.
Former US military people like Douglas MacGregor and Scott Ritter have estimated that the Ukraine’s losses are likely far above 250,000.
The major takeaway is that the Ukraine is hiding their real losses in order to maintain Western support for their failing war effort. It’s utterly shameful what they have done. They are sending people to their death for a cause that can’t be won.
