Ukraine War: Zelensky Pleads For More Weapons As 100-200 Soldiers Die Daily

• Zelensky Pleads For More Weapons As 100-200 Ukrainian Soldiers Die Daily.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week put his country’s daily combat death toll at up to 100, but Podolyak said it had grown.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that up to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are dying every day in the war with Russia, and only more and more advanced Western weaponry will reduce the casualties, turn back the Russian offensive and force Moscow to the negotiating table, an adviser to Ukraine’s president said.

Mykhailo Podolyak told the BBC in an interview that aired Thursday the daily loss of between 100 and 200 Ukrainian fighters resulted from a “complete lack of parity” between Ukraine and Russia, which has “thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear” at the war’s front in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week put his country’s daily combat death toll at up to 100, but Podolyak said it had grown.

Ukrainian officials have pointed at the mounting losses to emphasize their urgent requests for more Western weapons, which have been critical to the country’s unexpected success in holding off Russia’s larger and better-equipped forces.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian troop leader Viktor Pokropyvayi said Ukraine would have “already beaten Russia” if they had “better weapons”.

Viktor Pokropyvayi stated that his troops are better trained than the occupying force, which has been littered with reports of low morale.

“We cannot compete in terms of equipment but our forces are better trained and are more determined than the invaders.

“We would have already won this war if we had better and bigger equipment. We need our allies to provide us with more weapons so that we can defeat the Russians.”

Andriy Bystrik, the spokesman for the Ukrainian military in the area around Zaporizhzhia, reiterated the point that without more supplies of heavy weapons from the West, the Ukrainian forces will find it difficult to push the Russians back far enough.

He said: “We are being outgunned, there is no doubt about that, but with more weapons, the direction of the war would change very quickly.

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“We need everything. Even our military vehicles are really private cars and vans people used in civilian life before the war, but what we really need now is more tanks, more artillery and more shells.”

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