Soldiers of the 59th Brigade of the Ukrainian army seen aboard a T-80 tank returning to base in Donetsk Oblast on May 9, 2023. (Vincenzo Circosta/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 517,290 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 June 8.
This number includes 1,210 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 7,843 tanks, 15,105 armored fighting vehicles, 18,484 vehicles and fuel tanks, 13,533 artillery systems, 1,095 multiple launch rocket systems, 834 air defense systems, 357 airplanes, 326 helicopters, 10,945 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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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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