**Russia Suffered Heavy Losses in 2024**
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on December 30 that Russian forces had suffered around 427,000 soldiers killed or wounded this year. The majority of these losses occurred in battles in Donetsk Oblast.
Syrskyi stated that Russia continues to use “human wave” assaults, which have resulted in record losses for the country. He claimed that last week alone, Russian forces lost around 1,700 people killed and wounded every day.
**Ukraine Reports Heavy Battles**
Russian forces have been advancing at a rapid pace in late 2024, closing in on key Donetsk Oblast towns like Pokrovsk, Toretsk, or Kurakhove. Heavy battles are also ongoing in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
**Ukraine Claims Higher Casualties for Russia**
Ukraine claims that Moscow’s troops suffered their highest casualties in November and December. This brings the total number of Russian losses throughout the full-scale war to nearly 790,000 by the end of the year.
The figures could not be independently verified as Moscow does not reveal the scale of its war losses.
**President Zelensky Speaks Out**
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine had lost 43,000 soldiers on the battlefield since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In addition to these losses, there were 370,000 injuries.
**New Security Assistance for Ukraine**
On December 30, US President Joe Biden announced a new security assistance package worth nearly $2.5 billion for Ukraine.
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