24, 2022, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces. Besides the wounded and killed, this figure also includes those who were captured.Estonian intelligence estimated that Russia could lose up to 40,000 personnel in October."Russia itself has killed a lot of Russians. A lot of mobilized Russian soldiers were killed by the Russian army itself because they were afraid to attack, to perish under the bullets, or to be wounded. So, they retreated and then were killed by their army," Zelensky told Times of India."This is their law of war," Zelensky said.Zelensky added that Russia also does not pickup its dead soldiers from the battlefield, leaving their bodies to rot on the ground.Speaking about the situation at the front, the president said that in eastern Ukraine, the Russian army is advancing by employing human attack waves, "throwing its soldiers into a meat grinder.