Soldiers operate a 2S22 Bohdana, a 155mm self-propelled howitzer in the Zaporizhzhia direction in Ukraine on March 5, 2025. (Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 1,039,830 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 18.
The number includes 1,180 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,032 tanks, 23,005 armored fighting vehicles, 55,494 vehicles and fuel tanks, 30,485 artillery systems, 1,441 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,197 air defense systems, 421 airplanes, 340 helicopters, 46,549 drones, 3,491 cruise missiles, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said four drones were shot down on approach to the capital, with blasts heard near Zvenigorod, Istra, and Zelenograd — suburban districts and satellite towns located to the west and northwest of central Moscow.
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All negotiating options have been exhausted for now, and continuing our blocking position would now endanger our interests," Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
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Germany will provide Ukraine with new long-range missiles "very shortly, very soon," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, without mentioning the name of the weapons being supplied.
