A spokesman for President Volodymyr Zelensky says an update on the death toll can only come from the top army commander, the defense minister or the president himself. Zelensky will release the new official figures “at the right time” as they are sensitive information. In any case, Kiev has asked the European Union how Von der Leyen obtained this information.
LOOK. Von der Leyen has since re-uploaded the speech, without the dubious number of Ukrainian casualties
Both Ukraine and Russia rarely disclose how many casualties there have been. Three weeks ago, U.S. General Mark Milley estimated that Ukraine had about 100,000 dead and wounded. An EU spokesman states that Von der Leyen also referred to this.
In her speech, she called for the formation of an international tribunal to condemn Russia’s crimes. In the deleted fragment, in addition to the dead soldiers, she also mentioned 20,000 Ukrainian civilians killed.