Russia has suffered its deadliest day of the war in Ukraine so far, with 1,950 soldiers killed in just 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian military.
Vladimir Putin’s losses in the war against Ukraine are mounting after thousands of Russian soldiers died in the last two days alone: 1,770 soldiers died on Sunday and another 1,950 on Monday.
The record toll of 1,950 soldiers killed in one day serves as a fresh humiliation for Putin after his two-day counteroffensive in Kursk at the weekend ended with 28 tanks blown up and 100 soldiers killed, according to reports.
Footage shows Russian armored vehicles, each carrying about 30 soldiers, driving over landmines in Kursk before exploding, with some wounded soldiers emerging from the rubble as the smoke cleared.
Russia has lost more than 710,000 troops since the start of its large-scale invasion almost three years ago, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said this week.
Footage shows Russian armored vehicles, each carrying about 30 soldiers, driving over landmines in Kursk before exploding, with some wounded soldiers emerging from the rubble as the smoke cleared.
Vladimir Putin’s (pictured) losses in the war against Ukraine are mounting after thousands of soldiers died in Ukraine in the last two days alone: 1,770 soldiers died on Sunday and another 1,950 on Monday.
A view from a drone showing a destroyed Russian armored vehicle in part of a forest where the hottest phase of the war is taking place on November 9, 2024. The forest is located about 8 kilometers southwest of Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers of the mortar group of the “Karpatska Sich” battalion carry out combat operations and target the Russian army with a 120 mm mortar on November 11, 2024 in Toretsk, Ukraine.
Despite heavy losses, Moscow presses ahead with its ‘meat attacks’ and continues to advance at its fastest pace since 2022, with the head of Ukraine’s armed forces admitting this month that it is currently facing ‘one of the most powerful Russians’ since the war broke out.
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has stalled, and Moscow has reportedly massed a force of 50,000 troops with the goal of recapturing territory seized from it three months ago.
kyiv said last week that its forces had clashed with some of the roughly 11,000 North Korean troops sent. to the region to support Moscow, and some experts say their deployment could be due in part to heavy Russian losses.
Volodymyr Zelensky said at the time of the August raid on Kursk that the seizure of Russian territory could serve as a bargaining chip with Moscow.
But, burdened by personnel shortages, Ukrainian forces have lost some of the ground they captured in the August raid and have continued to lose large swaths of their own territory.
The record number of daily Russian losses on Sunday (1,770 soldiers) and Monday (1,950 soldiers), which exceeds the previous peak of 1,730 in one day in May, is largely in line with estimates from Western countries.
The number of Russian soldiers killed and wounded averaged 1,500 “every day”, UK Chief of the Defense Staff Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC on Sunday.
Russia is making enormous sacrifices to secure “small increments of land,” Radakin said, but added that it continues to make “tactical and territorial gains” and is “putting pressure on Ukraine.”
Sir Tony said the Russian people were paying an “extraordinary price” for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and claimed October was the worst month in terms of losses since the conflict began in February 2022.
A photo provided by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service shows the site of a rocket attack on a five-story residential building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Nov. 11, 2024.
A photo provided by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service on Nov. 12, 2024, shows Ukrainian rescuers carrying the body of a woman at the site of a glider bomb attack on a residential building in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Nov. 11, 2024. 2024.
Volodymyr Zelensky (pictured) said at the time of the August raid on Kursk that the seizure of Russian territory could serve as a bargaining chip with Moscow.
A photo provided shows Ukrainian military installing anti-tank landmines and non-explosive obstacles along the front line at an undisclosed location near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on October 30, 2024.
“Russia is about to have 700,000 people killed or injured – the enormous pain and suffering that the Russian nation has to endure because of Putin’s ambition,” he told Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.
The cost of the war, which he estimates at more than 40 percent of public spending on defense and security, is also “a huge drain” on Russia.
Last weekend saw the largest drone attacks by Russia and Ukraine since the war began, with bombing strikes hitting large areas of each country and hundreds of drones shot down, including in the Moscow region.
The attacks have intensified amid expectations that US President-elect Donald Trump will pressure both sides to end the conflict.
Trump repeatedly said throughout his campaign that he could end the war “in one day,” without saying how.
