Russia lost 24 tanks, 1,100 troops, and 36 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), and two planes in a single day, Kyiv's military said in an update on Tuesday.
As part of its daily update on the war, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces posts figures on Russia's troop and equipment losses. Moscow lost 1,110 soldiers over the past 24 hours, according to the military's latest casualty toll of Russian troops—bringing the total to 370,270.
Russia has also lost a total of 6,113 tanks, 8,801 artillery systems, 11,358 AFVs, and 331 aircraft in the ongoing war, the update said.
Newsweek couldn't independently verify Kyiv's figures and has contacted Russia's Defense Ministry for comment via email.
Estimates of casualty numbers vary, with Ukraine's figures usually exceeding those of its Western allies.
Moscow rarely shares information on the number of casualties it has sustained in the war. In September 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 troops had been killed since the war began. The defense ministry has since reported casualty numbers a further three times, confirming the loss of another 162 troops, the BBC's Russian Service reported.
On January 12, a joint investigation by the BBC's Russian Service and independent Russian news outlet Mediazona identified the names of 41,731 Russian military personnel who have died in the war in Ukraine since February 2022. It said that the actual number of losses was higher than the figures stated in the investigation.
It said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's convict army is making up a significant proportion of Moscow's losses in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Volunteers, prisoners and "recruits" of private military companies now account for 37 percent of all confirmed Russian casualties, while a further 12 percent of identified fatalities were enlisted under Putin's September 2022 "partial mobilization" order.
The BBC's Russian service said it has so far identified the names of 7,717 prisoners of Russian colonies who enlisted in the war and died in Ukraine. The bodies of some of those casualties remained on battlefields for several months, the investigation found.
Kyiv similarly does not provide information on its war casualties. A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment leaked in April 2023 said that Ukraine had suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties, including 15,500 to 17,500 dead.
Shoigu said in December that Ukraine has lost more than 383,000 troops since the war began. Newsweek could not independently verify the figures.
The British defense ministry said in an intelligence update on Tuesday that neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces have made significant advances over the last week, but that Moscow's push to seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka remains its "key line of effort."
"To date Russia has made very limited territorial gains at a significant cost in both materiel and personnel," the ministry's analysis said.
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