Ukrainian soldiers fire a missile from a Grad multiple rocket launcher in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025. (Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 1,083,790 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 Sept. 2.
The number includes 800 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,156 tanks, 23,233 armored fighting vehicles, 60,488 vehicles and fuel tanks, 32,301 artillery systems, 1,477 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,213 air defense systems, 422 airplanes, 341 helicopters, 55,446 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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Responding to Trump's comment that Russia looks like a "paper tiger," Kremlin spokesperson Peskov said that "Russia is more commonly associated with a bear. There is no such thing as a 'paper bear,' and Russia is a real bear."
The tax increase, part of the draft budget submitted to the Russian government, is aimed "primarily at funding defense and security needs," the Russian Finance Ministry said.
The breach allegedly exposed official correspondence of the head of Russian occupation authorities in Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, as well as internal documents and communications between occupation ministries and services.
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) drones again struck the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical plant in Russia's Bashkortostan Republic, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on Sept. 24.
Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 126 of the 152 Shahed-type drones and decoy drones launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported. Twenty-six drones hit seven different locations.
The endorsements come amid rising tension in NATO's eastern flank following a series of airspace breaches, which have challenged alliance protocols on intercepts, escalation, and collective defense.
The Astrakhan gas processing plant in southern Russia has stopped production following a fire at the facility caused by a drone attack, three industry sources told Reuters.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in New York to attend the ongoing U.N. General Assembly, Russian state media reported early on Sept. 24.
"Gradually, he realized that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin was simply sharing some information that was far from the truth on the battlefield. Now he trusts me much more because the information that my intelligence has, that we share with our partners," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form," Trump wrote on his Truth Social following his meeting with the Ukrainian president.
