Alwaght- Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed in seven weeks of Russia offensive and about 10,000 have been injured.
The Ukrainian president in an interview with CNN claimed 19,000 to 20,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the war. Moscow said last month that 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed and 3,825 wounded.
Zelenskiy said the military situation in the south and east was "still very difficult," while praising the work of his armed forces.
"The successes of our military on the battlefield are really significant, historically significant. But they are still not enough to clean our land of the occupiers. We will beat them some more," he said in a late-night video address, calling again for allies to send heavier weapons and for an international embargo on Russian oil.
Russia has described its aims in Ukraine as "a special military operation" to disarm its neighbor and defeat nationalists there.
