Tribune: Ukraine will not win conflict with such high casualties

MOSCOW, December 20 – RIA Novosti. The losses of the Ukrainian army are so great that Kyiv cannot count on success on the battlefield, writes a French edition. tribune.

“In fact, with this level of casualties, the Ukrainian armed forces will never be able to overthrow Russia,” the article states.

According to the authors, Western countries will soon have to “start with the truth rather than flattering the nationalist illusions” of Volodymyr Zelensky’s government.

“The day will come when the Americans will tell the Ukrainians that the time has come to put an end to all this,” the Tribune said.

At the end of November, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, made a statement noting that “more than 20 thousand civilians and one hundred thousand soldiers have been killed by estimates so far” in Ukraine. ” The Ukrainian side stated that the number was between 10 and 13 thousand people, describing the information as an error. Later, the paragraph was completely deleted. The press service declared it a “mistake” because it was about “dead and wounded”.

In November, Army General Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Joint Group of Russian Forces, said that in October alone, the Ukrainian army lost more than 12,000 soldiers.

In September, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Ukrainian soldiers had killed more than 61,000 people and wounded 49,000.