"It's time to tell society": People's Deputy voiced the loss of the Armed Forces (video)

Roman Kostenko talks about a figure of 41 thousand with missing missing. MP Marian Bezugla said that an indicative figure of the dead could be larger - about 50 thousand. The Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, the People's Deputy from the Voice faction Roman Kostenko, stated that at the meetings of the Committee, the General Staff of the Armed Forces did not call the losses of Ukrainian defenders, which would be larger than 50 thousand.

He said this air on Radio Liberty, thus denying the data voiced by MP Marian Bezugla. "I was on the committee. I didn't hear the General Staff once saying that we have 50,000 killed. There was never such information on the committee, I try to be present at all committees. Somewhere they once talked about 7-8 thousand missing missing . That's then the figure is about 40,000, if you can add it yourself, "he said.

Roman Kostenko added that the fact that the President has now voiced the loss of defense forces in the war against the Russian Federation, just in time. "What the President said yesterday, I think it was time to tell the society to see the intensity of the fighting and the loss we have suffered. And how many heroes we lost.

Watch from the 3rd minute: 26 February during the press conference for the first time from The beginning of a full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky voiced the loss of defense forces. According to him, 31 thousand servicemen were killed on February 24, 2022. He refused to disclose the number of wounded and missing dead. "She said the estimated figure of the dead could be more - about 50,000. Western media reported that according to the US, Ukraine lost 70 thousand soldiers.