Russia lost more than 1,500 troops and over 100 armored and logistical vehicles over the past day, Ukraine's military said on Wednesday, taking its total casualties to almost half a million people.Moscow's forces have sustained a total of 486,940 casualties since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to figures published by the Ukrainian military on Wednesday.
Russian attacks across the frontline away from Kharkiv have increased during the offensive in the northeast, Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshyn, a spokesperson for the Khortytsia group of Ukrainian forces fighting in eastern and northeastern Ukraine, told Newsweek on Tuesday.On Monday, just days into the new offensive, Ukraine's military said Russia had lost 1,740 troops in a single day, marking the highest number of daily Russian casualties reported by Ukraine since February 2022.The U.K.