Police officers patrol around the residential buildings after shellings in the frontline city of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast as the Russia war continues in Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2023. (Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 353,190 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 Dec. 24.
This number includes 800 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 5,858 tanks, 10,888 armored fighting vehicles, 11,022 vehicles and fuel tanks, 8,314 artillery systems, 932 multiple-launch rocket systems, 611 air defense systems, 327 airplanes, 324 helicopters, 6,404 drones, 22 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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In a piece titled "There is no other option: no one should be left alive in Ukraine," columnist Kirill Strelnikov repeats Kremlin propaganda lines, including the claim that Ukraine is a "military training ground" for the West and that Ukrainians are mere pawns of the U.S. and Europe.
"The situation in Chasiv Yar is the same as in recent months. Russia is simply lying again, precisely so that the claim spreads through refutations," said Viktor Tregubov, spokesperson of the Khortytsia group of forces, in a comment for the RBK-Ukraine news agency.
"At least 10 injured children, five of them in hospitals. This was done by Russians," Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city's military administration, wrote in his official Telegram channel.
One of the main targets was a radio factory in the western city of Penza, which produces advanced communications systems for the Russian Armed Forces, according to Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation.
The remarks follow former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's July 28 statement that U.S. President Donald Trump's "ultimatum game" with Moscow amounts to a threat to Russia and pushes the United States itself closer to war.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russian forces launched 309 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy drones, along with eight Iskander-K cruise missiles, in an overnight assault.
The so-called Peace Act would establish a fund at the U.S. Treasury through which NATO allies could contribute money, enabling the Pentagon to replenish weapons sent to Kyiv, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Occupation authorities threaten parents in occupied Kherson Oblast to obtain Russian passports or risk losing parental rights, the Center of National Resistance reported on July 30.
Following a "deliberate" Russian air strike that killed 16, all remaining convicts have been evacuated from a prison in Bilenke, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the Justice Ministry said on July 30.
Fifteen minors have been convicted of political charges in Belarus thus far in 2025, including for insulting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to data released by the country's Supreme Court on July 29.
Valentina Matviyenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and one of Russia’s most senior officials, echoed Kremlin disinformation about Ukraine during her appearance at the Geneva conference earlier this week.
"The training process must be moved underground as much as possible. We must respond to air raid alerts and enemy drones immediately," Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
The Kyiv Independent news desk
