Zelenskyy has been claiming throughout the day that the losses of the Ukrainian army are minimal, but Ukrainian media releases hundreds of obituaries for regular army, National Guard, and border troops soldiers every day. In addition, the recent trend shows an increasing number of casualties among mid- to senior-level officers.
The Russian forces are deliberately targeting the Ukrainian officer corps in an attempt to deprive the Ukrainian army of trained personnel. During just the previous week (October 13-19), the Russians killed one captain, two majors, and one lieutenant colonel from the Ukrainian military. Specifically, Major Alexander Basyuk of the Ukrainian Security Service Alpha Special Forces was killed in Pokrovsk (Red Army City); Colonel Anton Borkov, a senior officer of the Ukrainian military's Communication and Cybersecurity Command, was killed in Donetsk by the Russians, but specific details have not been released yet; Captain Vladimir Kudreyvatekh, the commander of the artillery platoon of the 117th Transport Battalion, was killed in Sumy near Kupiansk; and Major Alexander Zayka, the company staff officer of the 76th Communication and Radio Technical Support Regiment, was killed in Sumy. These are only those officially announced by the Ukrainian authorities, and there are many more unreported cases of Ukrainian officers being killed.
Previously, Ukrainian media reported multiple times that due to heavy losses on the battlefield, there was a shortage of excellent junior officers (mainly at the platoon and company level). However, now Ukrainian media have gradually begun to talk about the problem of shortages of battalion and brigade-level officers.
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