Mediazona, an independent Russian media outlet, and BBC Russia confirmed through open-source research the names of 77.143 Russian soldiers killed since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion.
Mediazona has added 1,761 Russian soldiers to its list of casualties since the last update, which was at the end October.
Journalists note that the real figures are likely to be much higher as their verified data comes from public sources, such as obituaries and posts by relatives. Regional media reports and statements from local officials also provide information.
In an interview published on Nov. 8, the U.K. defense minister stated that Russian forces had their deadliest October since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, with an average of 1,354 casualties per day.
British defense intelligence estimates that Russia has suffered more than 696,000 casualties since the start of full-scale invasion. This figure is in line with Ukraine’s current total of 707 540 reported on November 9.
Some experts believe that the recent surge in losses may be a factor in the deployment of North Korean forces to Russia.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russian president, said on November 7 that North Korean forces fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast are taking casualties. He did not provide a number of estimated casualties.
Since Russia’s all-out war began against Ukraine, over 4,300 officers were killed in combat in Ukraine. Analysts also note that 14,204 Russian convicts were killed on Ukraine’s east front.
According to the journalist’s observations, Russian soldiers who will be killed in action by 2024 are likely to be older as the average age of volunteer recruits continues its upward trend. The majority of the volunteer recruits who died in the war were between 48 and 50 years of age.
The bloodiest day in the history of Moscow’s forces occurred on May 13 when they suffered 1,740 reported casualties.
According to unnamed sources and Western intelligence estimates cited by the Wall Street Journal on September 17, approximately 1 million Ukrainians or Russians, including civilians, have been killed since February 2022.
Josep Borrell said, at a Kyiv news conference, that “we must strengthen anti-sanctions measures because Russia cannot manufacture (weaponry), without imported parts, chips, and other components.” “We should use sanctions in order to isolate Russia’s industry from imports from foreign countries.”
Borrell said, “We need faster delivery and fewer red lines that we set ourselves,” referring to his support for allowing Ukraine to use long-range weapons provided by the West to strike deep within Russian territory.
The Biden administration is rushing to deliver over 500 interceptors for Patriot and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missiles (NASAMS) systems, according to a Wall Street Journal report (WSJ) on Nov. 9 citing a senior official.
A senior adviser to Donald Trump said that Ukraine needed to be “realistic in its goals for war” and added that the peninsula of Crimea, which was occupied by Russia, was “gone.”
Dmytro Lubints, Ukraine’s Ombudsman, said that the occupiers had no limit to their cruelty and cynicism.
Syrskyi stated that “we have received numerous reports about the preparations of North Korean soldiers for combat operations alongside Russian troops.”
The shortage of ammunition in Ukraine has been a concern for many years, but it has gotten worse this year.
After the Russian invasion of February 2022, Ukraine began actively developing their missile program.
British defense intelligence estimates that Russia has suffered more than 696,00 losses since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
The memorandum will establish over 100 industrial park across Ukraine, affecting the lives of 2,5 million citizens and helping to create “hypermodern” cities.
“The dialogue between the President Zelensky, and President-elect Trump, has already been established,” Sybiha stated in Kyiv during a press conference held with Josep Borrell, chief diplomat of the European Union.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on November 9 that Ukraine had attacked seven Russian regions, including Tula Oblast, with 50 drones. Moscow claimed to have shot down all 50 drones including two that were over Tula Oblast located south of Moscow.
Syrskyi stated that the targets included 221 radio equipment pieces, 129 artillery systems and more than 4, 000 Russian troops.
According to the Telegraph, the U.S. will supply weapons to Ukraine in order to prevent Moscow from relaunching the war. The sources said that in exchange for the weapons, Ukraine would agree to not pursue its ambition to become a member of NATO for 20 years.
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The claim comes at a time when Ukraine has intensified efforts over the last few months to strike deep into Russia with homemade drones. These drones have been targeting airfields, oil refineries, and arms depots to weaken Russia’s combat capabilities.
Borrell said in a post on X that EU support was always his “personal priority”, and should remain at the top of the agenda for the bloc.
The report comes after Ukraine’s Air Force announced that Russia attacked Ukraine with 51 drones overnight, and the southern Odesa Oblast served as the “epicenter.”
This includes 1,660 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
“We still get quite a bit of LNG via Russia and from Russia,” she told Donald Trump in a telephone call. “And why not substitute it with American LNG which is cheaper and brings down our prices?”
Anton Sopov, 21 and Stanislavrau, 28 were found guilty of the murder of a family of nine people, including two children in the occupied Donetsk Oblast. This is a rare case where Russian authorities have held their own troops accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine.
The Russian General Pavel Klimenko (47) led the 5th Donetsk Motorized Rifle Brigade. The brigade was accused of torturing pro Kremlin U.S. Blogger Russell Bentley to death.
Russian authorities are seeking to sentence Dr. Nadezhda Bkanova, a pediatrician from Lviv in Ukraine, to six years in prison for criticizing Russia’s actions against Ukraine during a private meeting.
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