Moscow has not updated its tally of troops killed in action since September 2022, when it was just under 6,000.
and marked the Soviet role in defeating Nazi Germany, Moscow's forces continued to suffer high losses of military vehicles and troops in its invasion of Ukraine, according to Kyiv.
In its update on Wednesday, the Ukrainian armed forces said that over the previous 24 hours, Russian forces had lost two tanks, 18 armored vehicles and 690 troops.has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry about the figures which have not been independently verified. These losses add to Russia's equipment challenges that were seemingly evidenced by its scaled-down display in Moscow's Red Square during Victory Day celebrations. They also come ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive, which has been talked about for weeks.
Kyiv's estimates of Russian losses of tanks have risen to 3,736, and of armored vehicles to 7,275, since the start of President's full-scale invasion in February 2022. The open-source intelligence website Oryx puts Russian losses of armored vehicles of tanks at 838 and 1,938 respectively, as of Wednesday.
Regarding Russian troop losses, Kyiv's latest estimate stands at 196,310. Other estimates are much lower. In February, the U.S. said that up to 43,000 Russian troops had been killed in action, according to a leakedUkrainian servicemen ride a T-64 tank towards a front line near the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on May 7, 2023. Ukraine has said on May 10 that more than 196,000 Russian troops have been killed since the start of Moscow's invasion.Earlier in May, U.S.
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