More than 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed fighting Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, acknowledging the conflict's devastating toll, as negotiators gathered in Abu Dhabi for a second day of peace talks. In addition to 55,000 troops dying in the four-year-old war, a “large number of people” are considered officially missing, Zelenskyy told France 2 TV on Wednesday. In February 2025, he said more than 46,000 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed on the battlefield.