# Zelenskyy: Russian soldiers keep going to warzones ‘to die, because that’s what Putin wants’

https://mins.news/en/video/71265

- Global News, 2026-09-23 20:25 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDHg_b3mLyE

> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a 26-minute address to the 81st UN General Assembly to condemn Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He said exactly 248,964 Russian soldiers died between January and August, accusing Putin of continuing to send personnel into Ukrainian warzones “to die, because that’s what Putin wants.”

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