Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian officials estimate that between 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in an interview with CNN.
He added that about 10,000 of our servicemen were wounded, and "it is difficult to say how many of them will survive."
According to Zelensky, civilian casualties are more difficult to estimate.
"It is very difficult to talk about civilians, because in the south of our country, where cities and towns are blockaded - Kherson, Berdyansk, Mariupol further to the east... Volnovakha - we just do not know how many people died," the head of state said.
Asked about the horrific videos released this week (of death and destruction, particularly of the woman who found her son's body in a well), he said: "It's a great pain for me."
"I can't look at it only as a father, because after something like that you just want to take revenge and kill. I have to look as the president of a state where many people have died and lost their loved ones, and there are millions of people who want to live," Zelensky said.
Ukrainians want to fight, the head of state added. But, he said, it is necessary to do everything possible so that this war is not endless.
"The longer it lasts, the more we will lose," the President concluded.
