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General Staff: Russia has lost 49,500 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24

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Ukraine’s General Staff reported on Sept. 4 that Russia has also lost 2,049 tanks, 4,430 armored fighting vehicles, 3,276 vehicles and fuel tanks, 1,147 artillery systems, 294 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, 156 air defense systems, 206 helicopters, 236 airplanes, 864 drones, and 15 boats.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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