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General Staff: Russia has lost 287,770 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

by Alexander Khrebet October 15, 2023 9:30 AM 1 min read
A Russian soldier amid the wreckage of the Mariupol Drama Theater, which Russian forces indiscriminately bombed in March 2022, in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast. *EDITOR'S NOTE: This picture was taken during a trip organized by the Russian military.* (Photo credit: Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
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Russian forces had lost 287,770 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24 last year, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported in its daily update on the morning of Oct. 15.

This number includes 880 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 4,948 tanks, 9,362 armored fighting vehicles, 9,249 vehicles and fuel tanks, 6,866 artillery systems, 813 multiple launch rocket systems, 547 air defense systems, 317 airplanes, 316 helicopters, 5,269 drones, 20 boats, and one submarine.

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