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General Staff: Russia has lost 507,650 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 507,650 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
A serviceman of the 14th Regiment of Armed Forces of Ukraine holds an FPV strike drone on the front line on Oct. 26, 2023, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russia has lost 507,650 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 31.

This number includes 1,390 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 7,728 tanks, 14,935 armored fighting vehicles, 17,905 vehicles and fuel tanks, 13,140 artillery systems, 1,088 multiple launch rocket systems, 815 air defense systems, 357 airplanes, 326 helicopters, 10,587 drones, 27 ships and boats, and one submarine.

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