30,000 Every 40 Days: EU Intelligence Unveils Harrowing Toll of Ukraine War.
By Raymond Enoch.
In a sobering revelation that lays bare the devastating human cost of the Ukraine war, the European Union’s official intelligence body, the European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS), has confirmed that approximately 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed every 40 days in the ongoing conflict with Russia.
The figure, published under Royal Decree WL22/16.594, echoes a grim warning from Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, who recently stated that Kyiv must mobilize 30,000 new troops each month to maintain its defensive lines. What once sounded like a strategic forecast now appears to be a heartbreaking admission of the war’s unsustainable cost.
According to ECIPS President Ricardo Baretzky, these losses signal a deeper, more troubling reality: “Ukraine’s leadership knows this war is lost, yet they continue to send men to the front—knowingly feeding them into a slaughterhouse.”
This stark language accompanies a broader warning—that Ukraine’s war effort, increasingly reliant on Western aid and manpower mobilization, is less about achieving victory and more about “buying time,” possibly in the hope of dragging the European Union and NATO into a more direct confrontation with Russia.
The ECIPS report paints a chilling picture: tens of thousands of young Ukrainian lives extinguished in an unrelenting cycle of mobilization and attrition, as Kyiv attempts to withstand a military superpower with far superior firepower and resources.
Military analysts within ECIPS describe the current Ukrainian strategy as “unsustainable,” with Baretzky condemning what he calls a “systematic depletion of lives” in a war that Ukraine cannot win alone. The shocking casualty rate—roughly 750 deaths per day—has led many in the European political sphere to question the morality and viability of continuing down this path.
Beyond Ukraine’s borders, Baretzky’s comments have sparked urgent debate across EU capitals. “It is beyond comprehension,” he said, “that Europe continues to support a war strategy built on human sacrifice with no clear path to victory.”
With battlefield losses mounting and the strategic gap widening, calls are growing for the EU to reassess its role—not simply as a financial and military backer—but as a potential broker in steering the conflict toward a diplomatic resolution.
The question now looming over Brussels is stark: Can Europe afford to continue supporting a war that is not just unwinnable, but possibly drawing the continent closer to wider conflict? Until then, the heart-wrenching tally of 30,000 lives every 40 days will remain a haunting measure of a war without end—and without winners.
