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President Zelensky declares Russia has lost Ukraine forever

President Zelensky announced that Russia has lost Ukraine forever - Photo 1.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Reuters photo.

The Ukrainian leader made this statement in his nightly address to the nation on the evening of April 17. Zelensky also said that Ukraine lost up to 3,000 troops in the war with Russia and about 10,000 others were wounded. As for Russia, he said that between 19,000 and 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the war, now in its eighth week. However, during a briefing in Moscow on Friday, April 15, officials Senior Russian military officials have updated their losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers (killed) and another 3,825 wounded.

Mr. Zelensky stressed that civilian casualties are more difficult to determine. “It is difficult to talk about civilians, because in the south of our country, where towns and cities are besieged – Kherson, Berdyansk, Mariupol further to the east, and the area where Volnovakha is located – we do not know how many people died,” Zelensky said.

Zelensky’s comments came as explosions were heard in the early hours of Saturday in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and the western city of Lviv, local media reported.

Air raid sirens sounded over most of Ukraine early Saturday. Kyiv was rocked by some of the most powerful explosions in two weeks on Friday, April 15. Russia said it attacked a factory on the outskirts of Kiev used to manufacture and repair anti-ship missiles. Experts say that this move is clearly in retaliation for the sinking of the flagship Moskva, “the pride of Russia’s Black Sea fleet”.

Ukraine has claimed responsibility for attacking the ship, and a senior US defense official said on Saturday (AEST) that the Russian flagship was indeed hit by at least one Ukrainian missile. .

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