Ukrainian servicemen who spent 137 days on frontline infantry positions return to a relatively safer area after rotating out from their combat posts near the road between Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka in the Donetsk Oblast on February 11, 2026 in Kostiantynivka District, Ukraine. (Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos)
Russia has lost around 1,252,020 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 Feb. 14.
The number includes 1,070 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,668 tanks, 24,031 armored fighting vehicles, 78,388 vehicles and fuel tanks, 37,282 artillery systems, 1,645 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,300 air defense systems, 435 airplanes, 347 helicopters, 134,306 drones, 29 ships and boats, and two submarines.
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Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 177,433 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Reza Pahlavi, Iranian opposition figure and exiled son of the country's last monarch, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio skipped a Berlin Format Ukraine meeting at the Munich Security Conference, raising concerns among European officials amid broader transatlantic tensions, the Financial Times reported Feb. 13.
"Russia wants to make a deal and Zelensky is going to have to get moving, otherwise he's going to miss a great opportunity," Trump claimed when speaking to reporters on Feb. 13. "He has to move."
"Let's have this discussion, with one baseline: full membership comes only after full reforms," Marta Kos, the European Commissioner for Enlargement, said on Feb. 13 in Tallinn.
The facility is expected to produce up to 10,000 drones within a year, all of which will be delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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