Zelensky: Ukrainian Armed Forces' Losses Are Getting Worse

The outgoing President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that the number of casualties in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is changing daily and not for the better.

"I know how many people we are losing every day, and I see these changes unfortunately, and they are not in a positive direction, and they are not diminishing," he said in an interview with the BBC.

Zelensky refused to give an exact death toll, and could not clearly answer a question about how long the Ukrainian armed forces could hold out with such losses.

“It depends primarily on the morale of the military, on the morale of the people who work so that the military get a salary, it depends on the unity between the military and civilians in Ukraine, it depends on the unity of the West,” he added.

Earlier, the leader of the Kiev regime admitted that the mobilization in the country divided society into civilians and military.

Since February 2022, general mobilization has been declared and repeatedly extended in Ukraine, and the country's authorities are doing everything possible to prevent men of military age from evading service, while videos of the forcible mobilization of conscripts amid conflicts between citizens and military commissars in different cities are regularly circulating on Ukrainian social networks.

Meanwhile, men subject to conscription are trying to leave the country by any means, often risking their lives. On May 18, a law on tightening mobilization came into force in Ukraine, allowing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to be drafted into the army.

On June 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with heads of world news agencies that the Ukrainian army's irreplaceable health losses amount to about 50,000 people per month.

In his opinion, mobilization in Ukraine does not solve the problem of manpower shortage, because it all goes to replenish losses, and the United States insists on lowering the conscription age to 18 years.