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Ukraine Reports Russia Has Lost Over 1.5 Million Troops Since Invasion
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In Short: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia has lost 1,594,830 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Nov. 3 that Russia has lost 1,594,830 troops since the start of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
According to the report, Russia has also lost significant military equipment, including 12,452 tanks, 25,633 armored combat vehicles, 169,473 vehicles and fuel tanks, 51,840 artillery systems, 2,252 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,731 air defense systems, 452 aircraft, 356 helicopters, 3,067 unmanned ground vehicles, 35 ships and boats, and two submarines.
The report also noted that Russian forces lost territory for the second consecutive month amid record troop losses, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The ISW said it had assessed that Russian forces had lost more territory in October than they had consolidated.
On Nov. 1, the Russian army lost 2,500 troops in a single day, the highest number of Russian casualties in a 24-hour period since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on October 31 that 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.
Another 1,663 operational-tactical UAVs were recorded as lost, pushing the total to 590,661.
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.
What this adds
The latest report from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine marks a significant increase from the previous estimate of 1,588,180 troops lost since the start of the invasion.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been consistently reporting on Russian military losses since the start of the invasion.
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.
What's confirmed
- 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.
What's still developing
- Ukraine comes closer to making Patriot missiles domestically.
- "There is diplomatic momentum," Zelenskyy said, without elaborating.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.