General Staff: Russia lost another 1,260 soldiers and 11 tanks at the front
- Author:
- Oleksandra Opanasenko
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Over the past day, on July 5, the Defense Forces killed or wounded approximately 1,260 more Russian soldiers, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale war, since February 24, 2022, Russia has lost almost 549,840 soldiers killed and wounded.
The Defense Forces also destroyed:
- tanks — 8,153 (+11);
- armored fighting vehicles — 15,629 (+18);
- artillery systems — 14,897 (+66);
- rocket salvo fire systems — 1,115;
- air defense means — 878;
- airplanes — 360;
- helicopters — 326;
- UAVs of the operational-tactical level — 11,809 (+58);
- cruise missiles — 2,351 (+9);
- ships/boats — 28;
- submarines — 1;
- automotive equipment and tankers — 20,053 (+76);
- special equipment — 2,479 (+6).
- 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.