Heavy cost Ukraine is being asked to pay in the war with Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday that since the start of the Russian invasion of his country, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

The president of Ukraine clarified that he would not give the number of injuredas “this would help Russian military planning”.

Typically, Ukrainian officials do not release the number of Ukrainian servicemen killed in the war.

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s victory would depend on Western military aid and appeared confident that the US Congress would eventually approve the long-awaited aid package.

“Whether Ukraine will lose, whether the situation will be very difficult, whether there will be a very large number of victims it’s up to you, our partners, the Western world,” said President Zelensky during a press conference.

“If we are strong, armed, we will not lose this war,” he said.

The announcement comes after the defense minister said half of all Western aid to Ukraine has been delayed, something that costs lives and lands.

“For now, commitment does not mean delivery (of aid),” Rustam Umerov said in televised remarks on Sunday.

Ukraine faces currently series of failures in its mission to expel Russia from its soil, comments the BBC.

Umerov said the lack of supplies puts Ukraine at a further disadvantage “in the mathematics of war.”

“We are doing everything possible and impossible, but the untimely supply is hurting us,” he said.

Ukraine and its foreign partners could invite Russia to a future one peace conference to end the two-year-old Russian invasion, on the terms of Kiev, a senior Ukrainian official said today.

Switzerland will host session cto discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s vision for peace, a proposal that could be presented to Russia in a second phase of the summit at a later date, said Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak.

“It could be a situation where we jointly invite representatives of the Russian Federation, to whom the plan will be presented in case whoever represents the attacking country at that stage really wants to end this war and return to a just peace,” Yermak said during a teleconference in Kiev.

Zelensky he first announced his peace plan during a G20 meeting in November 2022.

This provides for the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and the complete withdrawal of Russian troops.

Kiev maintains that it will not hold dialogue with Moscow unless all Russian troops withdraw from Ukrainian territory.

The Kremlin has stated that there is currently no basis for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and that Kiev’s peace plan is absurd because it excludes Russia.