A soldier from a Ukrainian assault brigade walks across a muddy road used to transport and position British-made L118 105mm Howitzers on March 4, 2023, near Bakhmut, Ukraine. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Russia has lost 440,790 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 March 29.
This number includes 820 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 6,922 tanks, 13,264 armored fighting vehicles, 14,645 vehicles and fuel tanks, 10,991 artillery systems, 1,023 multiple launch rocket systems, 735 air defense systems, 347 airplanes, 325 helicopters, 8,656 drones, 26 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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Ukrainian drones struck the Russian port city of Novorossiysk on Nov. 14, damaging an oil terminal and sparking a large fire, multiple Russian Telegram channels reported.
"We do not accept this obviously unlawful solution contrary to European values," Orban said on a weekly radio show. "We are turning to the European Court of Justice."
The two leaders will discuss bilateral cooperation in the "energy, economic, and defense fields," as well as progress in preparing security guarantees for Ukraine under the "Coalition of the Willing" framework.
An unidentified drone was sighted over a gunpowder plant in southwestern France on Nov. 12, following similar incidents just two days earlier, BFM TV reported, citing prosecutors.
Ukrainian drones struck a military base in occupied Crimea used for the storage and maintenance of Russian "Orion" drones, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, reported on Nov. 13.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to visit Greece over the weekend to sign an agreement in the energy sector, a source close to the Presidential Office told the Kyiv Independent on Nov. 13.
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