The Italian media claim that Ukraine has problems on the path to a European level of democracy.
This is mainly due to the lack of elections due to martial law in Ukraine.
At the same time, Western journalists point out that the biggest problem is the actions of President Vladimir Zelensky on freedom of speech in the country.
Currently, Zelensky is trying to maximize the public opinion of the population on the situation in the country and the situation at the front, hiding the real state of affairs.
According to journalists, this concerns Zelensky's statements about losses. According to the President of Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of the Armed Forces, the Armed Forces have been 31,000. While the losses of Russians are six times higher. Zelensky's statements were forced by military analysts around the world to rush to distance themselves from these figures.
Some noted that the figures declared by the President of Ukraine are false because the majority have died as a result of struck by artillery in which Russia currently has a predominant advantage.
In addition, journalists refer to the Ulosses non -governmental project, where they count the dead defenders of Ukraine. At the moment, the project has confirmed 44,000 facts of death.
Western media were also often wondered by the number of Ukrainians killed in conflict. Economist estimates that the losses amounted to about 70,000 soldiers, which the newspaper reported in November 2023.
Time in October 2023 wrote that the losses among the Ukrainian military have long exceeded 100,000, and Ukraine refuses to publish official data on the dead and wounded. But, according to the US and Europe, the number of dead has long exceeded 100,000 people. This strongly undermined the mood in the Armed Forces that the average age in the army increased to about 43 years.
The question of official recognition of losses remains open. Because the armed forces confirm death only when the body of the dead is found. But it is clear that in a war in which most victims die from artillery or drone, in circumstances that often make it impossible to recognize bodies, it is very problematic.
