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Russia has lost 557,770 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 July 13.
This number includes 1,120 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 8,199 tanks, 15,779 armored fighting vehicles, 20,461 vehicles and fuel tanks, 15,216 artillery systems, 1,119 multiple launch rocket systems, 889 air defense systems, 361 airplanes, 326 helicopters, 12,069 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
Russia’s advance toward key eastern highway threatens Ukraine’s grip of Donetsk Oblast
Outgunned and outmanned, Ukrainian soldiers struggling to hold the front line in a brutal, months-long Russian siege of Chasiv Yar are increasingly worried about their army’s ability to protect their rear. If key supply lines from the west are cut off and if troops to their south are overrun, they
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