"Exaggerated Data": The Council reacted to the "loss of the Armed Forces" by WSJ

According to People's Deputy Roman Kostenko, Ukrainian losses on the front are clearly lower than it was voiced in the American newspaper. At the same time, information is a state secret, so it cannot be made public. The data of The Wall Street Journal that 80,000 Ukrainian defenders were allegedly killed in the war.

This was stated by the People's Deputy from the Voice Party, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko in a comment to Radio Liberty. According to him, the number of those who died on the front from the Ukrainian side are clearly lower than it was voiced in WSJ. However, the exact figures were not officially voiced, because it is a state secret. "I think it is exaggerated data. Unambiguously. Those that are.

If we talk about the dead, those that we have recognized," Roman Kostenko said. Separately, the People's Deputy added that the number of 50 thousand dead may also not be true and is either overstated or approximate. And speaking of the previous two years, continues Kostenko, then the number of those who gave their lives at the front was 19 thousand. "And this was considered only those who were officially issued death certificates. We know that there are still people who are missing missing.

I think that we have approximately the same figure here. I do not have the most accurate data directly to say that this data is 100 percent faithful. But if we talk about Ukraine's possibility to further defend, there is a mobilization resource, says the People's Deputy. Everything will depend on the actions of the Russian Federation.

We will remind, on September 17, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal released material, which was stated that Ukraine and Russia had lost one million killed and wounded in the war. According to journalists, Ukraine will be more difficult to cope with the fewer population. However, in the long run, the consequences will be destructive for both countries that had demographic problems before the war.