As many as 13 000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in battle since Russia invaded the country nine months ago, according to an official in Kyiv.
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The comments from Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, appeared to be the first update on the number of dead fighters since late August when the head of the armed forces said nearly 9 000 troops had been killed. “We are open in talking about the number of dead,” he added, saying more soldiers had been wounded than had died.Ukraine’s military mounted a lightning counterattack in September that saw them win back swathes of territory in the northeast and south of the country, including the strategically-important city of Kherson which had been occupied by Russia shortly after its February 24 invasion.
Earlier, United States President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who is in Washington, DC, promised to maintain support for Ukraine and condemned “Russia’s illegal war of aggression” against its neighbour.
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