Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Russia suffering heavy losses

A man removes debris in a street hit by overnight shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, January 1, 2024. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces are suffering heavy losses and the notion that Moscow is winning the nearly two-year-old war is only a "feeling" not based on reality.

"Thousands, thousands of killed Russian soldiers, nobody even took them away," he told The Economist magazine in an interview published on Monday, referring to fighting around the besieged eastern town of Avdiivka which he visited last week.