When Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city of Debaltseve last February, after one of the fiercest battles in the conflict with Russian separatists, Western media outlets reported that scores of dead and injured Ukrainian soldiers were left on the snowy battlefield, too many for the Ukrainian army to carry as it escaped the city it once controlled. Days later, Ukrainian government officials said that the army had lost 182 men. Pro-Russian rebel commanders reported that they’d lost 60. …read more
Source: International Business Times
