More than 1,100 Russians dead in less than a week, Zelenskyy says
Russian forces suffered more than 1,100 dead in less than a week during battles near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the focal point of fighting in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
During his nightly address, Zelenskyy described the battles as "Russia's irreversible loss."
![PHOTO: Volunteers carry remains of a Uragan rocket as they clean the area around the Orthodox Svyato-Heorhiyivskyy Skyt of the Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery destroyed in a shelling in the village of Dolyna, Donetsk region, on March 11, 2023.](https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/f55ec1bb-86ec-4516-b6bf-1e86000e4e28/ukraine-russia-war-gty-lv-230312-3_1678651822109_hpEmbed_3x2.jpg)
Russian forces also sustained about 1,500 "sanitary losses," meaning soldiers were wounded badly enough to keep them out of further action, Zelenskyy said.
Dozens of pieces of enemy equipment were destroyed, as were more than 10 Russian ammunition depots, Zelenskyy said.
-ABC News' Edward Seekers