The Ukrainian General Staff estimates the number of killed and wounded in the Russian army at more than 402,000 people.
In a communicated, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the Russian army had lost, since the start of the invasion, 402,430 people, killed and wounded, without giving further details. These figures are unverifiable. For two years, the Russian army, like the Ukrainian army, has not communicated its losses.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have “destroyed 53 Russian armored fighting vehicles and forty artillery systems and killed 1,080 Russian soldiers” over the last twenty-four hours, Ukraine further specifies.
On the night of February 17-18, the Ukrainian army “destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter jet, twelve Shahed drones and a Kh-59 missile”has announcement the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleshchuk.