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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,001,560 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,001,560 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers sit in a shelter near the 82mm BM-37 mortar on March 14, 2025, in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russia has lost 1,001,560 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on June 13.

The number includes 1,220 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,934 tanks, 22,791 armored fighting vehicles, 51,821 vehicles and fuel tanks, 29,105 artillery systems, 1,416 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,184 air defense systems, 416 airplanes, 337 helicopters, 40,507 drones, 3,337 cruise missiles, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.

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