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Ukrainian servicemen from the 93rd Brigade drive a battle tank to position near Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Dec. 23, 2024. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Russia has lost 953,190 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 May 1.

The number includes 1,230 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,732 tanks, 22,364 armored fighting vehicles, 46,750 vehicles and fuel tanks, 27,136 artillery systems, 1,375 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,148 air defense systems, 370 airplanes, 335 helicopters, 34,401 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.

Can Russia’s war machine survive without outside aid?
More than three years since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s defense industry has adapted to a new normal. Despite a web of international sanctions designed to cripple military production, factories across the country have been able to keep building bullets and shells, drones and military vehicles.

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