Zelensky said Russian troops were being slaughtered because 'the Kremlin can't admit mistakes and is terribly afraid of reality.'
"Bakhmut is the hottest spot on the entire frontline—more than 1,300 kilometers of active hostilities," Zelensky said."Since May, the occupiers have been trying to break our Bakhmut, but time goes by and Bakhmut is already breaking not only the Russian Army, but also the Russian mercenaries who came to replace the wasted army of the occupiers."
Zelensky went on to claim that Russia had senselessly lost almost 99,000 troops since invading Ukraine on February 24, with a total of 100,000 soldier deathsA Ukrainian soldier is pictured on an armored vehicle in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Saturday. The inset features an image of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky taken during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 9, 2022.
"They wage war and waste people's lives, other people's lives, not of their loved ones, not their own lives, but the lives of others only because a group in the Kremlin can't admit mistakes and is terribly afraid of reality," he added."But reality speaks for itself."
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