Vladimir Putin’s forces are continuing to suffer heavy losses in Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s latest figures, which claimed Russia had sustained the highest combination of personnel and equipment losses since the invasion began.
Ukraine’s General Staff said on Wednesday that Russia had it had recorded further troop losses of 1,250 on the previous day, taking the total over the two years since the war broke out in February 2022 to 420,270.
The latest estimates also pointed to considerable losses of equipment, including 21 tanks, 40 armoured fighting vehicles, 50 artillery systems, and one MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System).
Russia also lost one cruise missile, 58 drones, one cruise missile, 56 cars and cisterns, and 12 pieces of special equipment, according to Ukraine’s figures.
Ukraine also included the widely reported loss of the Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov near the Kerch Strait, which they claimed was destroyed by a drone strike.
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Last month, Andriy Kovalyov, spokesman for Ukraine’s General Staff, said that Ukraine’s loss estimates were “total combat losses” that included both dead and injured personnel.
It came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement on February 25 that 180,000 Russian troops had been killed up to that point in the war.
Zelensky then gave the first official estimate of Ukraine’s losses for the first time, which he said were around 31,000 since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
However, US officials told The New York Times in August that some 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed, with around 120,000 wounded.
