Kyiv: 9,000 troops dead since invasion began

NIKOPOL, Ukraine: Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers since it began six months ago, a general said, and the fighting on Monday showed no sign that the war is abating.

At an event for veterans, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's military chief, said many of the country's children need to be taken care of because "their father went to the front line and, perhaps, is one of those almost 9,000 heroes who died."