This audio is created with AI assistance
Russia has lost 486,940 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 May 15.
This number includes 1,510 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 7,510 tanks, 14,508 armored fighting vehicles, 16,955 vehicles and fuel tanks, 12,538 artillery systems, 1,070 multiple launch rocket systems, 798 air defense systems, 351 airplanes, 325 helicopters, 10,015 drones, 26 ships and boats, and one submarine.
48 hours in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s most-bombed major city
The first signs that something ominous is happening in Kharkiv come as soon as the train from Kyiv reaches the suburbs of the city – as two pillars of smoke appear in the distance, every single phone in the carriage erupts with a piercing electronic squawking. “I guess we’ve arrived,
Chris York
