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Russia has lost 403,720 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 Feb. 19.
This number includes 1,290 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 6,498 tanks, 12,232 armored fighting vehicles, 12,767 vehicles and fuel tanks, 9,733 artillery systems, 986 multiple launch rocket systems, 674 air defense systems, 336 airplanes, 325 helicopters, 7,460 drones, 25 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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The capture of Avdiivka is Russia’s first major achievement in nine months, but it doesn’t leave any side looking good. For Russia, it was a Pyrrhic victory that consumed an army’s worth of equipment and killed or mangled estimated tens of thousands of Russian men to capture
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