““From among the returned fallen defenders of Ukraine: 397 from the Donetsk direction; 24 from the Luhansk direction; 64 from the Zaporozhye direction; 17 dead were returned from morgues on the territory of the Russian Federation””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“From among the returned fallen defenders of Ukraine: 397 from the Donetsk direction; 24 from the Luhansk direction; 64 from the Zaporozhye direction; 17 dead were returned from morgues on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the message says.
“Together with expert institutions, the identities of the dead will be established as soon as possible,” the message reads.
On November 8, the coordination headquarters reported that the bodies of 563 dead servicemen were returned to Ukraine.
At the beginning of March 2024, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced that more than 2,800 bodies and body fragments of military personnel had been identified in Ukraine. It is not known how many bodies remain unidentified.
On February 25, 2024, for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the number of dead Ukrainian soldiers: 31 thousand. At the same time, Zelenskyi said that he cannot disclose how many Ukrainian soldiers are wounded and missing.
On November 26 of this year, The Economist, citing sources or published intelligence reports, representatives of the defense department, researchers, open data, and the Ualosses website, reported that Ukraine could have lost 60,000 to 100,000 soldiers killed in nearly three years of full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation. About 400,000 more soldiers could have been injured, it follows from the given data.