Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with the BBC that the Ukrainian military suffered the most losses in May during the bloody battles in the Donbass..

“The biggest peak of our losses was in May. When Mikhail Podolyak and the President spoke in June, these data were meant.

Then the advantage of the enemy was the greatest, especially in the Donbas direction - they used up to a thousand artillery shells per hour. It was insane pressure, and we didn’t have the opportunity to respond to them, we didn’t have so many shells. In May, indeed, up to 100 guys [per day], unfortunately, died, and up to 300-400 were injured,” Reznikov said..