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General Staff: Russia has lost 818,740 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 818,740 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Destroyed Russian main battle tanks and armored vehicles lying beside a road on May 25, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Russia has lost 818,740 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 Jan. 19.

This number includes 1,580 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 9,811 tanks, 20,412 armored fighting vehicles, 34,401 vehicles and fuel tanks, 22,055 artillery systems, 1,262 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,046 air defense systems, 369 airplanes, 331 helicopters, 22,615 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.

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"Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air," President Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. "The routes are always calculated. This cannot be an accident, a mistake, or the initiative of some lower-level commanders."

It is the third time Russian forces have used pipelines as a tactic, which they first adopted during the Battle of Avdiivka. Back in March, around 100 troops passed through a gas pipeline to reach Ukrainian positions in Sudzha, in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

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