Daily Update: Russia Loses 1,310 Troops, 3 Cruise Missiles and 69 Artillery Systems

Russian forces sustained an estimated 1,310 personnel losses over the previous 24 hours, along with three cruise missiles tanks and 69 artillery systems, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on August 22.

The latest estimate puts Russia’s cumulative personnel losses since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, at approximately 1,476,580.

During the reporting period, Russian forces also lost 26 armored combat vehicles, one air defense system, eight unmanned ground vehicles, and 1,925 operational-tactical drones, according to the General Staff.

Ukrainian forces additionally destroyed 415 vehicles and fuel tankers, one aircraft, three cruise missiles and four pieces of special equipment.

Russia’s overall equipment losses are estimated at 12,292 tanks, 25,202 armored combat vehicles, 48,451 artillery systems, 2,054 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,585 air defense systems, 440 aircraft, 354 helicopters, 2,352 unmanned ground vehicles, 476,566 operational-tactical UAVs, 5,052 cruise missiles, 35 ships and boats, two submarines, 138,219 vehicles and fuel tankers, and 4,569 pieces of special equipment.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 254 combat engagements across the frontline over the previous 24 hours.

Just a day earlier, Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian Su-24M combat aircraft and four pieces of airfield equipment at the Saky military airfield in temporarily occupied Crimea, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on August 22.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s strikes are intended to systematically weaken Russia’s military infrastructure and diminish the economic resources supporting its war effort.

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