Daily Update: Russia Loses Over 1,000 Troops and 8 Artillery Systems in One Day

Russian forces sustained heavy losses over the past 24 hours, with at least 1,040 troops killed or wounded, according to an operational update released by Ukraine’s General Staff on the morning of February 8.

According to the updated figures, Russian casualties since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, have now reached approximately 1,246,330 personnel.

Ukraine’s General Staff reported that Russian units also lost equipment over the past day, including one tank, one armored combat vehicle, and eight artillery systems, underscoring continued combat activity along multiple sections of the frontline.

Updated Russian losses as of February 8, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, include:

• personnel: approx. 1,246,330 (+1,040);

• tanks: 11,651 (+1);

• armored combat vehicles: 24,010 (+1);

• artillery systems: 37,044 (+8);

• multiple launch rocket systems: 1,637 (no change);

• air defense systems: 1,295 (no change);

• aircraft: 435 (no change);

• helicopters: 347 (no change);

• operational-tactical UAVs: 127,549 (+468);

• cruise missiles: 4,269 (+24);

• warships/boats: 28 (no change);

• submarines: 2 (no change);

• vehicles and fuel tankers: 77,439 (+60);

• special equipment: 4,069 (+5).

The General Staff did not report changes in the number of aircraft, helicopters, naval assets, or air defense systems over the past day.

According to Oleksandr Syrskyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian drone units struck 66,200 targets in January, eliminating approximately 29,700 Russian troops—a figure that exceeded Russia’s monthly recruitment of around 22,000 personnel.

Syrskyi noted that Ukraine continues to maintain an advantage in the use of FPV drones, while ground-based robotic systems carried out 25 percent more missions in January than in December.

Earlier, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency reported a series of coordinated drone strikes in January that destroyed key elements of Russia’s short-range air defense network, including a Pantsir-S1 system, Tor-M1 and Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile systems, and critical radar assets from the Nebo-M complex and Protivnik-GE radar, significantly degrading Russian air surveillance and interception capabilities along the frontline.

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