Summary
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died and 370,000 have been injured since Russia’s invasion began, marking a rare admission of the conflict’s toll.
He also claimed 198,000 Russian soldiers have been killed, though casualty figures from both sides remain unverified.
The update comes amid heightened fighting, with Russia suffering record monthly casualties in November.
Talks with French President Macron and U.S. Trump focused on a potential peace deal, with Zelensky emphasizing the need for international guarantees to secure lasting peace against Russian aggression.
an entire university town. and the right age for that comparison, too. anyone who’s familiar with university towns, imagine if every single person there over the course of 3 years was killed defending their right to exist from a regime of hatred. imagine if you went to state college Pennsylvania, and it was nothing but dust, rubble, and bodies. this is the horror Ukrainians are being subjected to everyday. we need to be doing everything we can to support them and to resist russian terror. and it’s a selfish form of solidarity i’m calling for, too. support Ukrainians from a place of love because they are sisters, brothers, and cousins to us, but also support them because if russia succeeds in there aims of crushing the notion that someone can stand against russian terror, they won’t stop until they control the entire world through fear.
we live in a global system of terror. you are in this fight, no matter where you are because the things our governments enact and allow abroad are things they’ll enact and allow here if it benefits them. they have before, and they will again, if allowed.