A Ukrainian solider watches a multiple rocket launcher system firing a rocket at Russian positions on the front line in eastern Ukraine on Nov. 29, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 630,200 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 Sept. 12.
This number includes 1,270 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 8,653 tanks, 16,955 armored fighting vehicles, 24,481 vehicles and fuel tanks, 18,009 artillery systems, 1,184 multiple launch rocket systems, 945 air defense systems, 369 airplanes, 328 helicopters, 15,033 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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"According to initial reports, this ammunition was supposed to be destined for Ukraine, but in December 2023, the U.S. government announced that shells worth $147 million would also be sold to Israel," the report said.
Russian FPV drones are turning front-line towns on the Dnipro’s right bank into “no right to life” zones, a Truth Hounds report finds, documenting rising civilian deaths in Kherson and Nikopol.
On Nov. 11, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) Chernyshov was charged with illicit enrichment as part of a large-scale corruption case involving state nuclear power company Energoatom.
"We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"Several enemy infantrymen tried to penetrate and gain a foothold at one of the agricultural facilities," the 7th Corps said. "The enemy was destroyed."
The United States Congress will renew its efforts to move forward in an attempt to pass a Russia sanctions bill into law, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham announced on Nov. 17.
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