{"id":18737,"date":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/fifty-five-thousand-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-on-battlefield-zelenskiy-tells-french-tv\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","slug":"fifty-five-thousand-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-on-battlefield-zelenskiy-tells-french-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/fifty-five-thousand-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-on-battlefield-zelenskiy-tells-french-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-five thousand Ukrainian soldiers killed on battlefield, Zelenskiy tells French TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed \u200bon the battlefield as a \u200cresult of the country&#8217;s war with Russia \u200cis estimated at 55,000, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told France 2 TV on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;In Ukraine, officially the number \u2060of soldiers \u200ckilled on the battlefield &#8211; either professionals or those conscripted &#8211; \u200dis 55,000,&#8221; said Zelenskiy, in a pre-recorded interview that was broadcast on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskiy, \u200bwhose comments were translated into \u200cFrench, added that on top of that casualty figure was a &#8220;large number of people&#8221; considered officially missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskiy had previously cited a figure \u2060for Ukrainian war \u200bdead in an interview \u200bwith the U.S. television network NBC in February 2025, saying \u200dthat \u2060more than 46,000 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u2060by Sudip Kar-Gupta in Paris, Editing \u200cby Franklin Paul, Ron Popeski \u200cand Matthew Lewis)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed \u200bon the battlefield as a \u200cresult of the country&#8217;s war with Russia \u200cis estimated at 55,000, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told France 2 TV on Wednesday. &#8220;In Ukraine, officially the number \u2060of soldiers \u200ckilled on the battlefield &#8211; either professionals or those conscripted &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ce4fbe70848c3c171d72b55707e4a316.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}