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Russia has lost 639,480 troops since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Sept. 20.
This number includes 1,340 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 8,725 tanks, 17,132 armored fighting vehicles, 24,898 vehicles and fuel tanks, 18,212 artillery systems, 1,189 multiple launch rocket systems, 949 air defense systems, 369 airplanes, 328 helicopters, 15,469 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
Ukrainian drones are burning Russia’s oil refineries, but not its economy
Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian oil refineries are trying to achieve what Western sanctions couldn’t: grinding down what fuels Russia’s war machine and the backbone of its economy in an echo of the Allies’ oil bombing campaign on German assets in World War II. Since the start
Dominic Culverwell
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