General Staff: Russia has lost 973,730 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

Russia has lost 973,730 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 May 18.

The number includes 1,130 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,832 tanks, 22,557 armored fighting vehicles, 48,900 vehicles and fuel tanks, 27,980 artillery systems, 1,387 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,167 air defense systems, 372 airplanes, 336 helicopters, 36,385 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.

Ukraine’s 47th Brigade battalion commander resigns, slams military leadership over ‘stupid objectives’

“I have never received more stupid tasks than in the current direction,” Oleksandr Shyrshyn wrote in a blunt Facebook post announcing his decision on May 16. “Someday I will tell you the details, but the stupid loss of people, trembling in front of a stupid generals, leads to nothing but failures.”

The Kyiv IndependentOlena Goncharova