‘We lost several generations' – Ukrainian MP on leaked docs
Russian media outlets on Wednesday cited a digital card index allegedly acquired by hacker groups from Ukraine's Chief of Staff said to contain names of dead or missing soldiers, details of their deaths, and personal data of their families.
The entries suggested 118,500 troops were killed or went missing in 2022, 405,400 in 2023, 595,000 in 2024 and a record 621,000 so far this year.
Commenting on the reported losses, Dmytruk said: 'The lists of the missing today contain more than a million people, and of course these people are most likely dead, while their families remain in complete ignorance. The situation is tragic, the situation is frightening.'
He warned that villages had been emptied of men, including the elderly and disabled, and that Ukraine was facing 'huge losses' and a 'demographic crisis.'
'We have lost several generations,' he said, urging peace on the grounds that both Ukrainians and Russians were dying.
The reported figures far exceed official estimates. In February, Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky told CBS News that 46,000 of his soldiers had been killed since 2022, alongside about 380,000 wounded – numbers questioned in Western media. Moscow has also claimed higher Ukrainian losses, putting the toll at more than 1 million killed or wounded as of early this year.
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