Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the conflict in the last two years, putting a figure on the death toll for the first time, speaking at the Year 2024 conference on February 25, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. ‘Each person is a very big loss for us. 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers died in this war,’ the president said, without clarifying if the number covers the fighting that started in 2014 or just the last two years of full-scale war. ‘It is very painful for us.’ The number of those killed i…