A serviceman from the Steppe Wolves all-volunteer unit is standing near a pickup equipped with Grad rocket launch tubes and a sighting device while on a combat mission in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on April 27, 2024. (Ukrinform / Getty Images)
Russia has lost 904,760 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 24.
The number includes 1,280 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,420 tanks, 21,652 armored fighting vehicles, 41,726 vehicles and fuel tanks, 25,129 artillery systems, 1,338 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,117 air defense systems, 370 airplanes, 335 helicopters, 30,641 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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