The Ukrainian president has pegged Kiev’s total troop deaths at only 31,000 since Russia’s military offensive began two years ago

乌克兰总统称，自俄罗斯两年前开始军事进攻以来，基辅军队的总死亡人数仅为3.1万人

Only 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed in two years of fighting with Russian forces, President Vladimir Zelensky has declared, alleging a casualty figure far below even the estimates of Kiev’s Western benefactors.

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基宣布，在与俄罗斯军队的两年战斗中，只有3.1万名乌克兰士兵丧生，声称伤亡数字甚至远低于基辅的西方捐助者的估计。
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Speaking on Sunday in the country’s capital, Zelensky claimed that “31,000 Ukrainian military personnel have been killed in this war – not 300,000, not 150,000, not whatever [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his deceitful circle have been lying about. But nevertheless, each of these losses is a great sacrifice for us.”

泽连斯基周日在乌克兰首都发表讲话称，“3.1万名乌克兰军人在这场战争中丧生，不是30万，不是15万，也不是(俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔)普京和他的欺骗圈子所撒谎的那样。”但是，每一次损失对我们来说都是巨大的牺牲。”

Zelensky offered no estimates for the number of Ukrainian soldiers wounded or missing. He claimed “tens of thousands” of civilian deaths in areas occupied by Russian forces, but he conceded that precise figures weren’t available. “We don’t know how many of our civilians they killed.”

泽连斯基没有提供乌克兰士兵受伤或失踪人数的估计数字。他声称在俄罗斯军队占领的地区有“数万”平民死亡，但他承认没有确切的数字。“我们不知道他们杀害了多少平民。”

The purported death toll marks the first official casualty figure reported by the Kiev regime since the conflict with Russia began in February 2022. The Russian Defense Ministry has pegged Ukrainian troop losses at around 400,000, including more than 215,000 in 2023 alone. That estimate was released last month, before Russian forces reportedly took out more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops while liberating the key Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka last weekend.

所谓的死亡人数是基辅政权自2022年2月与俄罗斯发生冲突以来首次公布的官方伤亡数字。俄罗斯国防部估计，乌克兰军队的损失约为40万，仅在2023年就超过21.5万。这一估计是上个月公布的。据报道，俄罗斯军队上周末在解放顿巴斯的重要据点Avdeevka时，消灭了1500多名乌克兰军队。

US officials told the New York Times last August that about 70,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed and as many as 120,000 had been wounded. Those same unidentified officials pegged Russian casualties at up to 120,000 killed and 180,000 wounded. Washington’s estimated casualty ratio was sharply at odds with Putin’s claim last June that Kiev was losing ten times as many troops as Moscow. Western intelligence agencies reportedly estimated troop losses of 150,000 on each side in the first year of the conflict.

去年8月，美国官员告诉《纽约时报》，约有7万乌克兰军队被杀，多达12万人受伤。这些身份不明的官员称，俄军的伤亡人数高达12万人，18万人受伤。华盛顿估计的伤亡比例与普京去年6月的说法大相径庭，普京称基辅损失的军队是莫斯科的10倍。据报道，西方情报机构估计，在冲突的第一年，双方各损失了15万军队。

Zelensky’s figure of 31,000 deaths may sound familiar. He offered the same estimate for Russian combat deaths in June 2022, less than four months after Moscow’s offensive began. He claimed on Sunday that Russian forces had suffered 500,000 casualties, including 180,000 troops killed.

泽连斯基的3.1万人死亡数字听起来可能很熟悉。他对俄罗斯在2022年6月的战斗死亡人数给出了同样的估计，当时距离莫斯科开始进攻还不到四个月。他周日声称，俄罗斯军队伤亡50万人，其中18万人阵亡。

Although Zelensky has downplayed Kiev’s troop losses, the casualties were apparently high enough that, according to him, the Ukrainian Army requested the mobilization of up to 500,000 new soldiers in December.

尽管泽连斯基淡化了基辅军队的损失，但据他说，伤亡人数显然很高，乌克兰军队在12月要求动员多达50万名新兵。