General Staff: Russia was left without another 1,140 troops and 53 artillery systems
- Author:
- Liza Brovko
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During the past day, June 29, the Defense Forces of Ukraine killed or wounded approximately 1,140 more Russian occupiers. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has lost almost 541,560 soldiers killed and wounded, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
The Ukrainian military also destroyed:
- tanks — 8,080 (+7);
- armored fighting vehicles — 15,524 (+19);
- artillery systems — 14,533 (+53);
- rocket salvo fire systems — 1,110 (+1);
- air defense means — 873 (+2);
- airplanes — 360;
- helicopters — 326;
- UAVs of the operational-tactical level — 11,584 (+46);
- cruise missiles — 2,331;
- ships/boats — 28;
- submarines — 1;
- automotive equipment and tank trucks — 19,643 (+75);
- special equipment — 2,448 (+12).
Ukraine and Russia give almost no information about their losses in the war. Moscow officially last named the number of people killed in September 2022 — then they declared 5,937 dead. Kyiv did not do this for a long time, saying that the data would be disclosed after the war.
On February 25, 2024, for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the number of dead Ukrainian soldiers — 31,000. He did not name the number of wounded and missing.