General Staff: Russia has lost 1,029,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Russia has lost 1,029,660 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 July 9.
The number includes 1,050 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,000 tanks, 22,969 armored fighting vehicles, 54,575 vehicles and fuel tanks, 30,102 artillery systems, 1,434 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,193 air defense systems, 421 airplanes, 340 helicopters, 44,457 drones, 3,439 cruise missiles, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
Dnipropetrovsk village likely contested despite Russia’s claim of its capture
The village of Dachne in the southern part of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast appears to be contested, according to the Finnish Black Bird Group open-source intelligence collective. The Russian Defense Ministry on July 7 claimed to have seized Dachne, which would mark the first village to be under Russian control in the industrial Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, located just west of the war-torn Donetsk Oblast. The Ukrainian military denied the claimed capture, calling it “disinformation.” Viktor Tregubov, spok