Over the past day, September 21, the Russian army lost another 1,500 servicemen and military equipment.
This was announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the General Staff, the Defense Forces destroyed another 22 Russian tanks, 52 armored fighting vehicles, 63 artillery systems, two rocket salvo systems, one submarine, 67 operational-tactical drones, 67 cars and tanks, and 19 units of special equipment.
The total estimated losses of the Russians since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, according to the General Staff, can be viewed in the infographic below:
- 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.