From RFE/RL's News Desk:
A newspaper is citing German intelligence sources as saying the death toll in eastern Ukraine is almost 10 times higher than official figures.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported February 8 that an unnamed German intelligence source says as many as 50,000 people have been killed since the start of the armed conflict in April 2014.
That is dramatically higher than official data provided by either the Ukrainian government or the UN.
Speaking February 7 at a security conference in Munich, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said 1,200 soldiers and 5,400 civilians have been killed in the fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the Donbas region.
In its latest figures issued February 3, the UN said the conflict has claimed nearly 5,400 lives.
German intelligence is cited as calling those figures "too low and not credible."
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