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Russia has lost 613,590 troops since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Aug. 30.
This number includes 1,200 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 8,574 tanks, 16,722 armored fighting vehicles, 23,763 vehicles and fuel tanks, 17,572 artillery systems, 1,175 multiple launch rocket systems, 940 air defense systems, 368 airplanes, 328 helicopters, 14,453 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
Ukraine strikes Russian airfields with homemade weapons in hopes of preventing devastating attacks at home
Ukraine’s Air Force spotted 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers in Russian airspace at around 5 a.m. on Aug. 26. In less than three hours, Ukraine was under the largest aerial attack since the start of the full-scale war, with 127 missiles and 109 drones flying into Ukraine. To attack Ukrainian
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