KYIV: Nearly 9,000 Ukrainian dogfaces have been killed since Russia raided, the country’s top military officer said on Monday, two days before the country’s independence anniversary.
Ukraine’s Commander- in- ChiefGeneral Valeriy Zaluzhny said Ukraine’s children demanded particular attention “because their fathers have gone to the front and are perhaps among the nearly 9,000 icons who have been killed”.
Zaluzhny’s commentary on the Ukrainian death risk, reported by Interfax- Ukraine news agency, was the first suggestion of Kyiv’s military losses since April.
On Wednesday, Ukraine will mark its independence day — and six months since Russian colors raided.
EU mulls military training for Ukrainian forces
After Ukrainian resistance baffled an early Russian drive on the capital Kyiv, Moscow’s forces have riveted on gaining ground in the east of the country.
The shockwaves of the war are being felt around the world with soaring energy prices and food dearths.
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Training for Ukrainian forces
The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, meanwhile, told journalists in Spain that the EU was considering military training for Ukraine’s forces.
In Spain, Borrell told journalists that EU defence ministers would next week bandy launching a major training operation for Ukrainian forces in near countries.
“It seems reasonable that a war that looks set to last requires an trouble not only in terms of inventories of material,” Borrell said.
EU defence ministers have a two- day meeting in Prague from coming Monday.
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