Around 20,000 Russian troops were killed during Russia’s failed offensive in Kharkiv Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the BBC on July 18. Russia launched its offensive on Kharkiv Oblast in May, pressing towards Ukraine’s second-largest city, but the assault quickly stalled. “We stopped this offensive, and their attack failed. This is a fact,” Zelensky said. “About 20,000 of their people died. These villages cost them.” The Kyiv Independent was unable to independently confirm the figure. In June, Ukraine’s Khortytsia group of forces said Russian forces suffered aro…