Vladimir Putin’s military has been left red-faced after a new report by the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces claimed that Russia has lost 710,660 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The report released on November 11 also includes the 1,770 Russian troops believed to have been either killed or wounded within the previous 24 hours.
Since the beginning of Putin’s unlawful war, Russia also lost 9,253 tanks, 18,766 armoured fighting vehicles, 28,802 vehicles and fuel tanks, 20,314 artillery systems, 1,245 multiple launch rocket systems, 996 air defence systems, 369 planes, 329 helicopters, 18,676 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine, Ukraine has claimed.
This report comes after the UK’s chief of defence staff revealed that Russia suffered in October its worst month in terms of casualties since the start of the war.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC that Putin’s forces lost around 1,500 soldiers “every single day” last month.
Sir Tony said that Russian citizens were paying an “extraordinary price” for their leader’s war.
He added that the human losses came in exchange “for tiny increments of land”.
When asked whether Britain and European allies would continue to support Ukraine, amid concerns that US President-elect Donald Trump would seek to bring the war to an end upon his return to the White House in January on terms that may not be favourable to Kyiv, Sir Tony vowed Britain would support President Volodymyr Zelensky for “as long as it takes”.
The report also comes as the official Ukrainian Defence X account shared video footage showing Russian military hardware being destroyed by Ukrainian drones.
Under the caption “feel the power of [Ukrainian flag] drones”, the clip shows a Russian tank being “turned into a pile of metal” by a single Ukrainian drone strike.
Another video claims to show a Russian Shahed drone being shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet.
During the night of November 9, Ukraine is believed to have launched a massive drone attack on the Moscow region, which resulted in several blazes erupting and Russian forces having to shoot down dozens of UAVs.
While Ukraine continues to deal humiliating blows to the Russian military, the Kremlin troops are keeping their pressure on the eastern frontline.
The Russian Defence Ministry claimed to have captured the village of Vovchenko in the Donetsk region, just three miles from the strategic city of Kurakhove.
