Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 16David Arakhamia, who led the Kyiv delegation at peace talks with Russia, claims that Ukrainian troops daily lose «up to a thousand soldiers killed and wounded» in Donbass, and he estimated the average daily losses of the Ukrainian army at 200-500 people. According to the American portal Axios, Arakhamia, who is on a visit to Washington, voiced such figures during a discussion on Ukrainian issues at the German Marshall Fund. At the same time, his statements differ significantly both from the official data of Kyiv and from the information of the Pentagon. Vladimir Zelensky said on June 1 that Ukrainian troops are losing «60-100 soldiers a day killed in battle and about 500 people wounded.» The head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, said on June 9 that Ukrainian troops lose up to 100 people every day. In turn, adviser to Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, on the same day said that the daily losses of Ukrainian troops are “from 100 to 200 people.” Mark Milli, head of the US Armed Forces Chiefs of Staff Committee, said on June 15 that Ukraine is losing about 100 people killed per day , wounded — about 100-300.Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk with minesThe Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly called on the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms and surrender in order to save their lives. Arakhamia also complained about the insufficient, from his point of view, flow of weapons from Western countries. At the same time, in just a few hours of his speech, US President Joe Biden announced the allocation of another large-scale package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of a billion dollars to Ukraine. In total, since the beginning of the Russian special operation, as noted in Washington, more than 40 countries, including allies and partners of the United States, have provided this kind of assistance to Kyiv. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbas. .jpg» />Ukrainian Armed Forces fired more than 260 shells at settlements in the DPR per day
