Fifty-five thousand Ukrainian soldiers killed on battlefield, Zelenskiy tells French TV
Reuters
Wed, February 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM UTC
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PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed on the battlefield as a result of the country's war with Russia is estimated at 55,000, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told France 2 TV on Wednesday.
"In Ukraine, officially the number of soldiers killed on the battlefield - either professionals or those conscripted - is 55,000," said Zelenskiy, in a pre-recorded interview that was broadcast on Wednesday.
Zelenskiy, whose comments were translated into French, added that on top of that casualty figure was a "large number of people" considered officially missing.
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Zelenskiy had previously cited a figure for Ukrainian war dead in an interview with the U.S. television network NBC in February 2025, saying that more than 46,000 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed on the battlefield.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta in Paris, Editing by Franklin Paul, Ron Popeski and Matthew Lewis)