A serviceman is standing near a pickup equipped with Grad rocket launch tubes, which were captured from Russian troops in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on April 27, 2024. (Ukrinform / Getty Images)
Russia has lost 891,660 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 March 14.
This number includes 1,410 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,313 tanks, 21,443 armored fighting vehicles, 40,469 vehicles and fuel tanks, 24,455 artillery systems, 1,314 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,103 air defense systems, 370 airplanes, 331 helicopters, 29,136 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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Along the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, the front line has remained largely static, but fighting continues every day. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko embedded with Ukraine’s forces in Kherson Oblast, following FPV drone and night bomber teams tasked with defending river islands.
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