President: Russia lost more people in Donetsk region than in two Chechen wars

"The fiercest battles this week are ongoing in Donbas – Bakhmut and Soledar. We hold our positions. In these and some other directions in Donetsk region, the Russian army has already lost as many people and weapons as it probably did not lose in the two Chechen wars combined," President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on November 4.

According to Zelensky, the real level of Russia's losses is concealed from Russian society.

"They even conceal their mobilization now and are simply lying to people that the alleged mobilization task has been completed. And in fact, they continue to gather people in the regions of Russia and on our occupied territory to send them to death," he said.

According to the president, "this absolutely insane stubbornness of the owners of today's Russia is the best indicator that everything they tell some foreign leaders about their alleged readiness for negotiations is just as false."

"When someone thinks about negotiations, he is not looking for ways to deceive everyone around him in order to send tens or hundreds of thousands more people – mobilized or some mercenaries – to a meat grinder. And it is very good that the world perceives Russian rhetoric as it deserves, namely as a lie, and pays attention only to what the terrorist state is actually doing. Doing, not saying," Zelensky added.

The President emphasized that the authorities were ready for peace on condition of respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and full compensation by Russia for the damages caused to us.

On February 24, Russia began a new stage of the eight-year war against Ukraine – a full-scale offensive. The Russian troops shell and destroy key infrastructure facilities, massively shell the residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages with artillery, rocket launchers, aerial bombs, and ballistic missiles.

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