Ukrainian Armed Forces leadership's approaches are justified - military expert on Ukrainian, Russian losses

He said this on Espreso TV.

"The New York Times article talks about losses on both sides in the war - 200,000 on the Ukrainian side, including 70,000 killed, 130,000 wounded, and 300,000 on the Russian side. These figures are based on the data of American journalists with American officials, partly Ukrainian. We have no other figures today. If we accept this assumption of losses, it means that the current approaches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces leadership to conduct an offensive operation, avoiding massive assaults, are fully justified," Zgurets emphasized.

According to the expert, the Ukrainian military is the main value around which the Ukrainian strategy of offensive defense should be built.

"If the war is already entering an exhausting stage with the use of Russian industry, European and US industry, then our most important resource is people. We have few human resources, and this should be the main value around which our strategy of offensive defense should be built. We have fewer people than the enemy. We need to create a system of offense and defense that takes into account our limitations," Zgurets said.

• On August 19, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that the number of Ukrainian military killed in the war with Russia is a state secret that is not disclosed to prevent the enemy from miscalculating the Ukrainian Armed Forces' actions. 

• Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army has lost 258,340 soldiers. On August 21, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensives near Klishchiyivka, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to hold back the Russian offensive in the areas of Avdiivka, Marinka, and Novomykhailivka.