An interesting incident happened on Ursula von der Leyen's Twitter page. The president of the European Commission explained in the video that an estimated 20,000 civilians and more than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers died in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The twist in the story is that only a fraction of this number has been officially recognized by the Ukrainians so far.

Original video:

The video was deleted almost immediately - however, the internet does not forget, the uncensored version was immediately uploaded to various sites - and then returned minutes later, but the part about the dead soldiers and civilians was cut out of it.

New video:

 

Dana Spinant, deputy spokesperson for the European Commission, explained on his Twitter page why the video had to be quickly deleted and censored.

Thanks to those who pointed out the inaccuracy of the figures in the previous version of the video.

The estimate from an external source should have been for casualties, i.e. both dead and wounded, and was intended to show Russian brutality," he tweeted.

Explanation:

Ukrainian presidential spokesman Sergei Nikiforov commented on the incident to the Ukrainian news portal Suspilne News. As he said, the information about the losses is "sensitive".

therefore, they can only be made public by the Commander-in-Chief, the Minister of Defense or the President himself.

Source: mandiner.hu

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