{"id":16056,"date":"2024-02-26T00:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/zelensky-warns-millions-will-be-killed-without-us-aid-to-kyiv-as-ukrainian-troop-deaths-reach-at-least-31000\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T00:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:47:45","slug":"zelensky-warns-millions-will-be-killed-without-us-aid-to-kyiv-as-ukrainian-troop-deaths-reach-at-least-31000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/zelensky-warns-millions-will-be-killed-without-us-aid-to-kyiv-as-ukrainian-troop-deaths-reach-at-least-31000\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky warns \u2018millions will be killed\u2019 without US aid to Kyiv, as Ukrainian troop deaths reach at least 31,000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cTo understand it is to come to the front line to see what\u2019s going on, to speak with the people, then to go to civilians to understand \u2026 what will (happen to) them without this support. And he will understand that millions \u2026 will be killed. It\u2019s a fact,\u201d Zelensky said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOf course he doesn\u2019t understand, God bless you don\u2019t have the war on your territory,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Zelensky\u2019s warning came just hours after the Ukrainian leader made a rare admission of troop losses, saying that about 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far in the conflict, during a conference in Kyiv. <\/p>\n

Addressing the conference, Zelensky disputed Russian claims of much higher numbers when it comes to Ukrainian casualties. He added that \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of civilians have died in Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big loss to us. 31,000 Ukrainians, Ukrainian soldiers, died in this war. Not 300,000. Not 150,000, whatever (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is lying with,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cEvery loss is a huge loss to us.\u201d <\/p>\n

Throughout the conflict, Kyiv has been hesitant to admit how many soldiers have been killed. Former Ukraine Defense Minister Oleksiy\u00a0Reznikov said in June 2022 that he believed tens of thousands of Ukrainians had been killed since February of that year. <\/p>\n

Two months later, Valerii\u00a0Zaluzhnyi, then the head of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, said 9,000 troops had been killed. <\/p>\n

US officials estimate some\u00a070,000 soldiers\u00a0have been killed and nearly twice that number wounded. <\/p>\n

Zelensky\u2019s comments come as his country faces setbacks on the battlefield and is struggling to secure more aid from its Western partners. In the United States, a foreign aid bill remains stalled in the House of Representatives by isolationist Republicans. <\/p>\n

The Ukrainian leader said his country is counting on Congress to act. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey know we need their support,\u201d said Zelensky. <\/p>\n

Zelensky also floated the possibility of attending a possible peace summit in Switzerland in the spring, though cautioned Russia may not be involved. He said that Putin \u201cdoes not want to end this war.\u201d <\/p>\n

Reporting contributed by Andy Carey, and Madalena Araujo\u00a0in Kyiv. This story has been updated with new information. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo understand it is to come to the front line to see what\u2019s going on, to speak with the people, then to go to civilians to understand \u2026 what will (happen to) them without this support. And he will understand that millions \u2026 will be killed. It\u2019s a fact,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cOf course he doesn\u2019t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}