Recruits of the 37th Marine Brigade go on shooting range during an additional training course on Dec. 24, 2024 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Ivan Antypenko/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Russia has lost 859,920 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 Feb. 17.
This number includes 1,530 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,089 tanks, 21,063 armored fighting vehicles, 37,605 vehicles and fuel tanks, 23,222 artillery systems, 1,283 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,067 air defense systems, 370 airplanes, 331 helicopters, 25,505 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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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.
A seventeen-year-old girl was killed and nine others were injured in an overnight Russian missile attack on the city of Berestyn in Kharkiv Oblast on Nov. 18, regional authorities said.
Purported videos posted on social media appear to show a large explosion and subsequent fire emanating from the Zuivska Thermal Power Plant in the occupied community of Zuhres in Donetsk Oblast, following a projectile strike on the target.
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