Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 31,000 Ukrainian servicemen and women had been killed since since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of the country two years ago.
Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, Zelensky declined to say how many people had been wounded over the same period to avoid giving the Russians any intelligence. However, he did say that 180,000 Russian soldiers had died during the full-scale war, and that the number of Russian dead and wounded now totalled 500,000.