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Ukraine's Army Now Larger Than Russia's (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 year ago by OppaGundamStyle@discuss.tchncs.de to c/world@quokk.au

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U Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Kyiv's army is now larger than Moscow's during a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday. He said that Ukraine's military now has 880,000 soldiers, while Russia's forces are comprised of 600,000 troops.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The article contains conflicting statements from Zelensky:

Comparing the size of Ukraine's armed forces to other EU countries, Zelensky previously said: "The Ukrainian army is the largest in Europe. The second place after us (France) is four times smaller than us. I think the French have about 200,000. We have 980,000."

It was 880k in a previous paragraph.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Either a typo, or that's what he previously said and now he's saying 880k.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost certainly a typo. Both the subtitles under the video of Zelenskyy and every other mention of the number all say 880,000

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's this syndicated Jan 6 story that says he said 980k back then.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

it’s also okay to misspeak, misremember, etc… we shouldn’t demand absolute perfection from our leaders. this isn’t an exam

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It was a pyrrhicgraph.