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Eugene

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Thu Jun 9, 2022, 10:14 PM Jun 2022

Ukrainian casualties: Kyiv losing up to 200 troops a day - Zelensky aide

Source: BBC

Ukrainian casualties: Kyiv losing up to 200 troops a day - Zelensky aide

9 June 2022

A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has told the BBC that between 100 and 200 Ukrainian troops are being killed on the front line every day.

Mykhaylo Podolyak said Ukraine needed hundreds of Western artillery systems to level the playing field with Russia in the eastern Donbas region.

He also said Kyiv is not ready to resume peace talks with Moscow.

Ukrainian troops are under relentless bombardment as Russian forces attempt to take control of the whole of Donbas.

"The Russian forces have thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear at the front and that includes heavy artillery, multiple rocket launch systems and aviation," Mr Podolyak said.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61742736

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