Soldiers of the 30th Prince Konstanty Ostrogski Mechanized Brigade fire a missile from a Grad multiple rocket launcher in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025. (Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 1,090,010 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. 9.
The number includes 950 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,169 tanks, 23,261 armored fighting vehicles, 61,207 vehicles and fuel tanks, 32,577 artillery systems, 1,482 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,217 air defense systems, 422 airplanes, 341 helicopters, 57,504 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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The bombing took place around 11 a.m. while local residents lined up to receive pensions, according to officials. The casualties included local pensioners and employees of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's national post service, who were delivering the payments.
The contract, set to be signed on Sept. 10 and worth "hundreds of millions of euros," will see the first units delivered to Ukraine by the end of the year.
Three oil and gas pipelines in Russia were knocked out of service in a series of explosions on Sept. 8, a Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) source told the Kyiv Independent.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow's plans could cost "years and a million people," or even "two or three million corpses" if Russia accelerates its offensive.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said that a country cannot join NATO while at war and that "today's discussion about Ukraine's membership in the European Union is premature."
The attack may have coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's working visit to the city. According to the Kremlin, Putin joined the BRICS summit online from Sochi on Sept. 8.
"That's the only conceivable way to move Putin from his current calculations... get him to compromise and to agree to a ceasefire," former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
"Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
Romania, Czechia, and Hungary have jointly dismantled a Belarusian espionage network operating across Europe, the Czech Security and Information Service (BIS) announced on Sept. 8.
Thousands of students and other demonstrators marched in Belgrade on September 8, demanding accountability for police violence during recent anti-government protests, RFE/RL reported.
