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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Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Zelensky are meeting in the city of Linkoping, home to the defense company Saab, which produces Gripen fighter jets and other arms.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also do not plan to meet in person in the near future, though they held a "productive" call on Oct. 20, a State Department spokesperson told the Kyiv Independent.
The Bryansk Chemical Plant produces gunpowder, explosives, and rocket fuel components for the Russian military. It has been sanctioned by the U.S. and U.K.
The former head of Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, says his opponents were likely behind a law enforcement raid on his home on Oct. 21, in a phone call with the Kyiv Independent.
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