Ukrainian troops fire at Russian positions near the city of Bakhmut on Aug. 14, 2023, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Roman Chop / Getty Images)
Russia has lost 965,890 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 11.
The number includes 1,310 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,792 tanks, 22,446 armored fighting vehicles, 47,947 vehicles and fuel tanks, 27,670 artillery systems, 1,381 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,159 air defense systems, 372 airplanes, 335 helicopters, and 35,537 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced on April 21 that he was extending Washington's ceasefire with Iran until Tehran "can come up with a unified proposal" to bring an end to the war.
Ukrainian officials involved in recent peace talks reportedly suggested that part of the Donbas could be renamed "Donnyland" in honor of U.S. President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported April 21.
Italy summoned Russia's ambassador on April 21 to protest "extremely serious and offensive" remarks about Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni by pro-Kremlin TV host Vladimir Solovyov.
"Ukraine has completed repair work on the section of the Druzhba oil pipeline that was damaged by a Russian strike," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukrainian billionaire and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov purchased a luxury apartment in Monaco valued at $550 million in one of the most expensive residential property deals in history, Bloomberg reported April 21.
Dombrovskis reminded that the EU’s Ukraine Support Loan is structured so that Ukraine only repays if Russia pays Ukraine reparations. “(This), of course, invites a question: what happens if Russia does not pay reparations?” he said.
"We are more concerned that money is increasing more rapidly than (weapons) production. It creates some kind of inflationary pressure," EU's Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius explained.
"Our Ukrainian friends need to understand that repeatedly portraying the Baltic states as Russia's possible next victim... does not create or reinforce a narrative that would help Ukraine itself or others in pushing back against Russian war-driven imperialism," Marko Mihkelson, chairman of the Estonian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Kyiv Independent.
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