“The CPD says that the purpose of the fake is to demoralize Ukrainians, to convince the world of “exhaustion and inefficiency of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” and to weaken its international support”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“This is an absolutely absurd fake, since Ukraine has never had a regular army of 1.7 million. As of January 2025, according to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the number of Ukrainian army was 880 thousand people. The President of Ukraine also reported that the loss of Russian servicemen is three times exceeding the loss of Ukrainian soldiers, ”the message reads.
According to the Armed Forces General Staff, as of August 20, 2025, Russia has lost 1,072,700 people killed and injured since the beginning of a full -scale invasion.
The CPD added that the Kremlin -controlled resources began to spread reports that Russian hackers had broken the Database of the Armed Forces General Staff and received information about “1.7 million dead and missing Ukrainian military” during the full -scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine.
On February 16, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News that since February 2022, Ukraine lost more than 46,000 soldiers and about 380,000 wounded in the war.
On August 1, US President Donald Trump cited data on the loss of Ukraine and Russia in a full -scale war, which Moscow has been running since February 2022. “I have just been informed that nearly 20,000 Russian soldiers were killed this month in a senseless war with Ukraine. Since the beginning of the year, Russia has lost 112.5 thousand soldiers … Ukraine, however, has also suffered. From January 1, 2025, she lost about 8,000 soldiers, and this number does not include missing missing, ”Trump wrote on TruthSocial, without specifying who gave him that data.