Protective nets above a road between Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka as mobile fire groups patrol the area to intercept and shoot down Russian FPV drones targeting military and civilian transport along this frontline route near Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast on Feb. 13, 2026. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)
Russia has lost around 1,255,340 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Feb. 17.
The number includes 890 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,678 tanks, 24,045 armored combat vehicles, 78,724 vehicles and fuel tanks, 37,323 artillery systems, 1,648 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,301 air defense systems, 435 aircraft, 347 helicopters, 136,073 operational-tactical drones, 29 ships and boats, and two submarines.
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The Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai, which supplies fuel to Russian troops, processes 6.42 million tons of oil annually, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
Over the past week, the elite Prymary ("Ghosts") unit targeted several high-value pieces of Russian military equipment, including a Pantsir missile system.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Feb. 16 that Russia is preparing new large-scale attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as Kyiv's negotiating team arrived in Geneva for another round of peace talks with the United States and Russia.
Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine's former energy minister, was charged of money laundering and involvement in a criminal group as part of the country's major corruption scandal, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) announced on Feb. 16.
Dismissing any approximations to Article 5 as mere "rhetorical expressions," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys named financial support for Ukraine's military or future EU membership as more realistic guarantees.
Zagreb is ready to help resolve the disruption in compliance with EU law and the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations, Croatian Economy Minister Ante Susnjar said.
Members of the public, businesspeople, and journalists will be able to upload information about dodgy dealings in the fuel market to the a chat bot called StopShadowBot on the popular messaging app Telegram.
The 7th Corps report comes as Ukraine clings to its last positions in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in eastern Donetsk Oblast, both of which have mostly been occupied by Russia, Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst with the Black Bird Group, told the Kyiv Independent.
The strikes targeted areas where Moscow had concentrated its troops, along with a Russian communications hub and a drone control center, the report read.
About 100 homes remain without heat, out of the 2,600 high-rise buildings that lost heating after a Russian attack on Kyiv's infrastructure on Feb. 12, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Feb. 16.
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