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[REGNUM] The publication of data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is not included in the plans of the US administration. This was announced on May 1 by the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House, John Kirby, at an online briefing for journalists.
"Today I will not talk about the losses on the Ukrainian side. We never talk about Ukrainian losses in the war. And I don’t think we are going to change this position," Kirby replied to the question of whether Washington has data on the losses of the Ukrainian army.
The representative of the White House explained that the Ukrainian authorities have the right to publish this information themselves, if they have such a desire. The White House, according to Kirby, does not plan to make any data publicly available that could complicate the work of the Ukrainian authorities.
"If they decide they want to declassify and make the numbers public, that's up to them," Kirby said.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that, according to Scott Ritter , ex-US intelligence officer and ex-UN inspector for monitoring the elimination of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction , Kiev cannot make up for losses among the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ritter noted that Ukraine had a regular army, which at the very beginning numbered about 260 thousand people, and today about 80% of them have been killed, wounded or captured.
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