Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky says some 23,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far


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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said some 23,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine since the conflict began just over two months ago. In a Saturday night video address, the Ukrainian leader said that more than a thousand Russian tanks and almost 2,500 other military vehicles were also destroyed. Zelensky switched into Russian in his nightly video address to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine, saying even their generals expected that thousands of them would die. He said Russia has been recruiting new troops “with little motivation and little combat experience” for the units that were gutted during the...