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Ukraine Reports Russia Has Lost 1.588 Million Troops Since Invasion
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In Short: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia has lost 1,588,180 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Oct. 31 that Russia has lost 1,588,180 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,450 tanks, 25,620 armored combat vehicles, 168,480 vehicles and fuel tanks, 51,739 artillery systems, 2,247 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,730 air defense systems, 452 aircraft, 356 helicopters, 3,045 unmanned ground vehicles, and 35 ships and boats.
While Ukrainian officials rarely disclose their own losses, President Volodymyr Zelensky told France TV on Feb. 4 that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action since the beginning of the full-scale war.
Ukraine's General Staff has not revealed its own losses during the full-scale invasion, citing operational secrecy.
Battlefield positions have changed little since last year, in part because swarms of drones severely restrict troop movements, but Kyiv's forces launched a recent offensive, code-named Operation Vivaldi, on part of the 800-mile front line.
President Donald Trump said that Russia had 'lost control' of its diesel industry due to the ongoing fighting with Ukraine and called for an end to the war.
Thursday’s letter, the first public message Zelenskyy has written directly to Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, was a sweeping critique of the Russian leader’s 26 years in power as well as some taunts about his age.
Both Moscow and Kyiv have stepped up attacks after the deadliest summer since 2022 — the year Russia launched its invasion, starting Europe’s worst war since World War Two.
He thanked 'everyone who is helping' the peace process.
Russia lost an estimated 1,670 troops and hundreds of pieces of military equipment over the past 24 hours, bringing its total personnel losses since the start of the full-scale invasion to approximately 1,588,170, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on October 31.
Another 1,663 operational-tactical UAVs were recorded as lost, pushing the total to 590,661.
What this adds
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia has lost 1,588,180 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,450 tanks, 25,620 armored combat vehicles, 168,480 vehicles and fuel tanks, 51,739 artillery systems, 2,247 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,730 air defense systems, 452 aircraft, 356 helicopters, 3,045 unmanned ground vehicles, and 35 ships and boats.
'Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine,' he posted on Truth Social.
Background
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia has lost 1,588,180 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia has lost 1,588,180 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
A military staff or general staff is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the execution of their plans and orders, especially in case of multiple simultaneous and rapidly changing complex operations.
What's confirmed
- Russia has lost 1,588,180 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Oct. 31.
- According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,450 tanks, 25,620 armored combat vehicles, 168,480 vehicles and fuel tanks, 51,739 artillery systems, 2,247 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,730 air defense systems, 452 aircraft, 356 helicopters, 3,045 unmanned ground vehicles, 35 ships and boats, and two submarines.
- While Ukrainian officials rarely disclose the figure, President Volodymyr Zelensky told France TV on Feb. 4 that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action since the beginning of the full-scale war, in addition to significant numbers who are missing in action.
- Ukraine's General Staff has not revealed its own losses during the full-scale invasion, citing operational secrecy.
- Battlefield positions have changed little since last year, in part because swarms of drones severely restrict troop movements, but Kyiv's forces launched a recent offensive, code-named Operation Vivaldi, on part of the 800-mile front line.
- President Donald Trump said that Russia had "lost control" of its diesel industry due to the ongoing fighting with Ukraine and called for an end to the war.
- "Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine," he posted on Truth Social.
- The demonstration took place at Hostages Square, three days before Israel’s general election, the first since the war on Gaza began.
What's still developing
- Ukraine comes closer to making Patriot missiles domestically.
- Russian athletes have been barred from competing under their national flag since the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, although International Skating Union rules allow for Russians to compete as neutral athletes.
- Obviously, it’s politically useful for Trump to blame the war in Ukraine for the elevation in global energy prices since the war in Iran given the proximity of midterms.
- President Donald Trump is questioning Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico ’s extended absence from the campaign trail, as Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s campaign is now demanding “proof of life” from its opponent.
- The president went on to praise Paxton, calling him the “Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas” and urging voters to support him.
- The General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed the attack and damage to the aircraft, adding that three Saudi citizens had lost their lives on 8 October.
- Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed that three people were killed and 36 injured in separate attacks on the two airports earlier this week.
- He had been serving as attorney general in an acting capacity since Trump fired Pam Bondi in April.
- Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, has been sworn in as US attorney general.
- Ranking Member Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who released the report, also accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Attorney General Todd Blanche of deliberately covering up President Trump’s involvement in Epstein’s schemes.
- Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation on Monday, Sept. 7, calling the move a “political decision” days after anti-corruption investigators searched premises used by him and other senior officials at the Prosecutor General’s Office.
- “This is a political decision. And I made it consciously,” Kravchenko said in a statement on Telegram, adding that he did not want the prosecutor general’s post to become an instrument of political confrontation.
Sources
- Kyivindependentlink
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