How many soldiers die every day in Ukraine?

It is the 99th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the war has already claimed thousands of lives. According to the United Nations, the most reliable source, so far 4,159 civilians have been killed in the country. Much more complicated is measuring the number of dead soldiers, since each side communicates different figures and these in turn differ from those of the intelligence agencies.

According to Ukraine

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, has revealed this Tuesday that every day between 60 and 100 soldiers of the Ukrainian army die.

“We are losing between 60 and 100 soldiers a day in the fighting, and about 500 wounded are wounded,” he said in an interview on US television. “The most difficult situation is in eastern Ukraine and the southern Donetsk and Lugansk regions.”

If correct, this figure shows that Ukraine’s defenses can withstand a long military campaign, since according to Zelensky his country currently has .

On the other hand, according to the Ukrainian army, Russia loses about 150 soldiers every day, according to the daily count published on social networks, and so far more than 30,000 have died.

According to Russia

The Russian government has not disclosed the deaths in its army since late March, when it said that in the first month of the campaign 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed and 3,825 wounded.

What the Ministry of Defense of that country does is a summary of the progress of the war – which they call “special military operation in Ukraine” – where they collect the victims of their enemy.

According to communications in recent days, Russia claims that it has killed between 200 and 300 Ukrainian soldiers every day, whom it calls “nationalists” or “Nazis”. This figure is between two and three times higher than that reported by Zelensky.

according to intelligence

British intelligence, which carries out intense daily monitoring of the invasion, that Russia has lost in the first three months of the war the same soldiers as the Soviet Union during the nine years of the war in Afghanistan, which ended in 1989. 15,000 died there soldiers, half of the soldiers that Ukraine claims to have killed.