A Ukrainian tank drives on a road in a village in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on March 16, 2025. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia has lost around 1,064,240 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 Aug. 11.
The number includes 1,000 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,093 tanks, 23,114 armored fighting vehicles, 58,113 vehicles and fuel tanks, 31,380 artillery systems, 1,462 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,204 air defense systems, 421 airplanes, 340 helicopters, 50,646 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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Russian forces launched 71 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy drones against Ukraine overnight, the Air Force reported. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 59 Russian drones, while 12 drones hit six different locations.
"It's terrible. At five o'clock, there was a huge explosion," a woman is heard saying in an alleged intercepted phone call released by Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).
A planned meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a test for the Kremlin leader, and Ukraine will be involved in upcoming peace efforts if the summit goes well, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.
"On Aug. 8, while repelling an enemy infantry assault in the Zaporizhzhia direction, our brother-in-arms, David Chychkan, was gravely wounded. In the early morning of Aug. 9, his heart fell silent," the United Anti-Authoritarian Forces said.
Overnight on Aug. 8, Russian forces targeted a SOCAR oil depot in Odesa Oblast with five Shahed drones, igniting a fire and damaging a diesel pipeline. "These are deliberate attacks not only on these facilities, but also on our cooperation (with Azerbaijan)," Volodymyr Zelensky said.
As part of ongoing U.S.-Russia discussions, Putin told special envoy Steve Wikoff during an Aug. 6 meeting that Russia would agree to a full ceasefire if Kyiv withdrew its forces from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, granting Moscow full control of those partly occupied regions as well as Crimea.
Emergency workers are still searching for more victims who may be buried under the rubble. "The Russians terrorize our people and all of Ukraine every day," Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
"We understand the Russians' intention to try to deceive America — we will not allow this," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Aug. 10.
"Maybe this works out, maybe it doesn't, but it's worth the effort," Vance said Trump told him ahead of the president's Aug. 15 meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
The attack marks Kyiv's first confirmed drone strike in Russia's northwestern Komi Republic. The strike hit the Lukoil-Ukhta refinery, which supplies the Russian army with fuel.
