Such a message was distributed today - June 16 - to the Ministry of Defense of the country - the statement was made by A. Lysenko - Speaker for ATU Affairs. He clarified that for about three years - the period when the ATU is being conducted in our country, about 2500 thousand of our defenders have already died in fights. In addition, there are also about ten thousand wounded in battles in eastern Ukraine.
As reported URA-Inform, today C. Poltorak noted that the army of Ukraine is rapidly turning into a professional. Within one and a half years, the army received about 86 thousand contract soldiers who have experience of fighting and are well motivated.