Ukraine’s losses amounted to approximately 45,100 people killed: Zelensky

About 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the war with Russia, and 390,000 have been wounded. These are the figures of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky cited in a recent interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, Radio Liberty Ukraine reports.

 

Two months ago, Zelensky reported 43 thousand dead and 370 thousand wounded.

 

The Ukrainian leader then estimated Russian losses at almost 200,000 killed and 550,000 wounded, but now he said that “the enemy had lost 300-350,000 soldiers, with up to 70,000 missing, and the maximum number of wounded was 700,000.”

 

The UALosses project, based on open data, estimates the number of killed Ukrainian soldiers at 63,584 – from February 24, 2022 to the present day.

 

The Russian side does not provide official data on its losses. Journalists and volunteers were able to establish the names of at least 91,059 Russian soldiers killed during the invasion of Ukraine from open sources. This data is as of the end of January 2025, and is updated regularly.

 

Western intelligence estimates that both Russia and Ukraine have suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, with Russian losses estimated to be higher. US President Donald Trump has said that up to one million Russian troops and at least 700,000 Ukrainians may have died in Ukraine. Trump has not provided a source for these claims.

 

Zelensky admitted in an interview with Piers Morgan that Ukraine cannot return all the territories seized by Russia. “We are adequate people and cannot lose millions of people for the sake of a result that is not yet a fact that it will happen,” the Ukrainian leader noted, emphasizing that Kyiv will never recognize Moscow’s sovereignty over Crimea, Donbass, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.

 

Zelensky said he was ready to sit down at the negotiating table with Vladimir Putin if this was the only way to achieve peace.