{"id":22780,"date":"2022-06-01T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22780"},"modified":"2022-06-01T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:44:27","slug":"zelenskiy-ukraine-losing-up-to-100-soldiers-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/01\/zelenskiy-ukraine-losing-up-to-100-soldiers-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy: Ukraine losing up to 100 soldiers every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\"><strong>Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has conceded that Kyiv\u2019s forces are currently suffering up to 100 fatalities and 500 wounded every day.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">In an interview with the US Newsmax television channel that aired yesterday, Zelenskiy said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>The situation is very difficult; we\u2019re losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action. So we are holding our defensive perimeters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">The most difficult situation is in the east of Ukraine and southern Donetsk and Luhansk, Zelenskiy added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"b11ceedf-6e89-4bcf-b61f-46fb52a1413c\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1b267dg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b1b4f7420e4baa83e1265f795dad62337c15a387\/0_60_2531_1519\/master\/2531.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=a566a13f50a697c787d9a465fcddeb48\" alt=\"Tombs of people who died after Russia invasion are seen in Bucha cemetery, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.\" width=\"2531\" height=\"1519\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-5yynor\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"b11ceedf-6e89-4bcf-b61f-46fb52a1413c\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\"><figcaption class=\"dcr-5yynor\"><span class=\"dcr-19x4pdv\">Tombs of people who died after Russia invasion are seen in Bucha cemetery, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/span> Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Ukraine and its people are the \u201cdefensive perimeter\u201d for the world against Vladimir Putin\u2019s aggression, he told the channel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>We have to realise who is the dark power: it\u2019s Russia. And Russia is not going to stop in Ukraine, for sure. The other countries, the former Republics of USSR and the members of the EU \u2013 some of them are already Nato member nations \u2013 they\u2019re already under threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">The Ukrainian president called out the \u201cweakness\u201d of Putin and Russia, not only in failing to occupy a smaller neighbouring nation but also in attempts to take him out as leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>Attempting to kill the leader of this or that country is a weakness, I would say. If you can\u2019t talk, then it\u2019s a weakness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Putin cannot win, and the world must stop defending him amid the latest \u201catrocities\u201d committed by Russian troops, he continued, while also calling out the lack of fully enforcing sanctions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>Now, he\u2019s almost isolated. The world always keeps giving him a chance, because the sanctions are not imposed completely. There\u2019s gaps in some of the leaders saying the Russian leader should be offered with a way out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<footer class=\"dcr-1eoy87d\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has conceded that Kyiv\u2019s forces are currently suffering up to 100 fatalities and 500 wounded every day. In an interview with the US Newsmax television channel that aired yesterday, Zelenskiy said: &nbsp; The situation is very difficult; we\u2019re losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5640,6883,12320,8924,5241,6193,159,11493,5252,9515,5342,6194,12085,4802,6884,3805,71,3457,5585,5217,11233,5713,5618,9178,5180,6885,5555,6348,7821,694,6886,36,594,6874],"class_list":["post-22780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bucha","tag-bucha-cemetery","tag-cemetery","tag-chance","tag-died","tag-donetsk","tag-eu","tag-interview","tag-invasion","tag-killed","tag-kyiv","tag-luhansk","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-outskirts-of-kyiv","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russia-invasion","tag-russian","tag-russian-troops","tag-sanctions","tag-soldiers","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraines-president","tag-ukrainian","tag-us","tag-ussr","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}