Ukraine’s military announced Tuesday that more than 1,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in a span of 24 hours, setting a grim new record for Vladimir Putin’s army, according to a report.
Overnight, the country’s armed forces increased its running count of Russian soldiers killed by 1,030, bringing the total to 133,190.
He described the daily rise as the highest in the war so far, according to Reuters.
The figures cannot be independently confirmed, but Ukraine also claims to have destroyed 3,245 Russian tanks, 6,443 armored personnel vehicles, 2,232 artillery systems, and 294 aircraft and helicopters in the war.
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Ukrainian artillery crews fire towards Russian troop positions in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Madeleine Kelly/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Moscow, during its winter campaign, has yet to capture a major population center, despite losing thousands of troops, Reuters reports.
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People look at destroyed Russian military vehicles on display in Kyiv on January 29, 2023. (Spencer Platt/fake images)
Fighting is centered on the Ukrainian-controlled town of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, it added.
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A view of destroyed armored vehicles and tanks belonging to Russian forces after they withdrew from the town of Lyman in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on October 5, 2022. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
In an intelligence update on Tuesday, the UK Defense Ministry said Russian forces “only managed to gain several hundred meters of territory a week” because the Kremlin “now lacks the munitions and maneuver units necessary to a successful offensive.
“Senior commanders are likely to make plans that require inexperienced and understaffed units to achieve unrealistic targets due to political and professional pressure,” he also said.
