Ukraine Pleads For Weapons As 100-200 Soldiers Die A Day
Newsy
After failing to overrun Ukraine's capital, Russia has made plodding progress in the country's east.
Up to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are dying every day in the war with Russia, and only more and more advanced Western weaponry will reduce the casualties, turn back the Russian offensive and force Moscow to the negotiating table, an adviser to Ukraine's president said.
Mykhailo Podolyak told the BBC in an interview that aired Thursday the daily loss of between 100 and 200 Ukrainian fighters resulted from a "complete lack of parity" between Ukraine and Russia, which has "thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear" at the war's front in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week put his country's daily combat death toll at up to 100, but Podolyak said it had grown. Ukrainian officials have pointed at the mounting losses to emphasize their urgent requests for more Western weapons, which have been critical to the country's unexpected success in holding off Russia's larger and better-equipped forces.
