General Staff: Russia lost 1 300 soldiers and 5 tanks over the past day

Over the past 24 hours, February 24, Russia lost another 1 300 servicemen killed and wounded, as well as dozens of pieces of military equipment.

This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed five Russian tanks, 11 armored combat vehicles, 26 artillery systems, two air defense systems, 122 operational-tactical drones, 138 vehicles and two special equipment.

According to the General Staff, since the beginning of the Great War, Russia has lost approximately 869 530 of its soldiers killed and wounded.

Ukraine and Russia have been largely silent on their war casualties. Moscow last officially reported the death toll in September 2022, when it said 5,937 people had died.

Ukraine last officially updated its casualty figures on February 16, 2025 — President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 46 000 soldiers were killed and about 380 000 were wounded.

On the third anniversary of the Russian Federationʼs full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian media gave a new estimate of the number of Russian losses in the war — approximately 160-165 thousand dead soldiers, officers, contract workers, mobilized and other Russians.

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