“We, the Ukrainians, are perfectly aware of the price that every meter and every kilometer of this land costs the Russian army,” Zelensky said in the interview.
“They don’t count the people who die. We are forced to. To conquer eastern Ukraine, it would cost them 800,000 more corpses, the corpses of their soldiers. It will take them at least two years, with very slow progress. In my opinion, they won’t last that long.”
I agree, russia will smash itself to pieces long before it conquers eastern Ukraine.
There’s understandably strategic reasons for undercounting losses, but actual Ukrainian army deaths are sadly about twice as high.
Thankfully, approximately three Russian soldiers have been killed for every Ukrainian soldier.
At least the percentage of civilian casualties seems comparatively low