This photograph taken on Jan. 27, 2024, shows a destroyed tank with Russia's war symbol "V" on it, in the village of Bohorodychne, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 724,050 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 Nov. 19.
This number includes 1,610 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 9,382 tanks, 19,092 armored fighting vehicles, 29,548 vehicles and fuel tanks, 20,632 artillery systems, 1,252 multiple launch rocket systems, 999 air defense systems, 369 airplanes, 329 helicopters, 19,111 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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Russia's security service (FSB) blackmailed prominent Ukrainian volunteer Mykhailo Puryshev into cooperation, threatening to conscript his son into the Russian army, he claimed on Aug. 17.
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Maksym Tsutskiridze added that police have received 1.5 million requests from enlistment offices related to locating people suspected of evading mobilization.
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Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 239,354 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.
Cooperation between Russia and North Korea would continue "in all the sectors," Putin said in his message, while Kim praised ties that had “carried forward the history of common struggle for justice and precious traditions of friendship,” according to Reuters.
Switzerland will provide 600,000 Swiss francs ($730,000) through UNESCO to help preserve and restore the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of Ukraine's most important historic and religious symbols, damaged in a Russian attack in June, Swiss Federal Council Delegate Jacques Gerber announced on Aug. 16.
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