{"id":30777,"date":"2026-09-23T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=30777"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:19:28","slug":"zelenskyi-rosiiski-vtraty-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/zelenskyi-rosiiski-vtraty-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy claimed that Russia had suffered nearly 249,000 casualties over eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">During his address to the UN General Assembly, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated that between January and August 2026, Russia had lost 248,964 military personnel in the war against Ukraine. According to him, this figure exceeds the population of each of the 21 countries in the world. The figure relates to an eight-month period and does not represent an estimate of Russia\u2019s total losses since the start of the full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zelenskyy put the figure for Russian military casualties at 248,964.<\/li>\n<li>The figure covers the period from January to August 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The President made the statement during the UN General Assembly.<\/li>\n<li>According to Zelenskyy, the figure is greater than the population of each of the 21 states.<\/li>\n<li>The figure does not break down the numbers into fatalities, injuries or other categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The figure does not correspond to the number of fatalities<\/h2>\n<p>The figure quoted by the President refers to the Russian army\u2019s losses over the first eight months of the year. It should not be equated with Russia\u2019s total losses over the entire period of the full-scale war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The statement does not provide a breakdown of this <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/viyna\/vtraty-rosii-dobu-dani-genshtabu-20-07-2026\/\">death rate<\/a>, the wounded or other categories. Therefore, the figure of 248,964 cannot automatically be taken as the number of Russian military personnel killed.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of such a breakdown determines the limits of a correct interpretation of the statement: it refers to losses in a broad sense, without specifying their nature.<\/p>\n<h2>Comparison with the populations of individual countries<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Zelensky<\/strong> He used a demographic comparison to convey the scale of the figure in question. According to him, fewer people live in each of the 21 countries in the world than the number of lives lost.<\/p>\n<p>This does not refer to the combined population of the 21 countries, but to the population of each individual country included in this comparison.<\/p>\n<p>This comparison forms part of the President\u2019s argument regarding the scale of Russia\u2019s losses over the period in question and does not alter the significance of the figure itself as data on losses, rather than merely on fatalities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian casualties for the first eight months of 2026, as stated by Zelenskyy, amount to 248,964 military personnel, without a breakdown into those killed and those wounded.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433355,"featured_media":30776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u041d\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0456 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u043c \u0432\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0456\u0457 \u0437\u0430 \u0432\u0456\u0441\u0456\u043c \u043c\u0456\u0441\u044f\u0446\u0456\u0432 2026 \u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u044f\u0442\u044c 248 964 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445 \u0431\u0435\u0437 \u0440\u043e\u0437\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0456\u043b\u0443 \u043d\u0430 \u0437\u0430\u0433\u0438\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0445 \u0456 \u043f\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0445.","rank_math_title":"\u0412\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0456\u0457 2026: 248 964 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445 \u0437\u0430 \u0432\u0456\u0441\u0456\u043c \u043c\u0456\u0441\u044f\u0446\u0456\u0432","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0432\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805619],"tags":[805624],"class_list":["post-30777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-805624"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30779,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions\/30779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}