The daily casualties of the Ukrainian armed forces amount to about 60-100 servicemen killed and around 500 injured, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview to the Newsmax television.
"The most difficult situation is in the east of Ukraine and southern Donetsk and Lugansk," he said. "The situation is very difficult; we're losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action."
Zelensky claimed the Ukrainian armed forces were "holding our defensive perimeters" in the east of Ukraine and "counter-attacking and pressing" in the Kharkov region.