One aircraft destroyed, more than 400 invading troops killed in a day, General Staff reports
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine updated data on the losses of Russian troops in Ukraine (Photo:Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Facebook)
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost about 66,280 of its soldiers, of which 430 were killed in the past day, according to a post by the Ukrainian military’s General Staff on Facebook on Oct. 19.
The enemy suffered the greatest losses during the day in the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions.
The invaders have also now lost more than 16,000 pieces of equipment in total, including:
- Tanks — 2,554 (+6)
- Armored combat vehicles — 5,235 (+16)
- Artillery systems — 1,637 (+15)
- Rocket launcher systems — 372 (+0)
- Air defense means — 189 (+1)
- Airplanes — 269 (+1)
- Helicopters — 242 (+0)
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of operational-tactical level — 1,286 (+10)
- Cruise missiles — 323 (+5)
- Ships/boats — 16 (+0)
- Automotive equipment and tankers — 3,999 (+14)
- Special equipment — 146 (+2)
Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24. Oct. 19 is the 239th day of full-scale war. The invading forces initially tried to advance from the north, east and south, shelling peaceful cities throughout Ukraine with artillery and from the air. Missile attacks by Russia across the country are still ongoing, the occupiers are attacking civilian objects.
During this time, the Kremlin has changed the goals of its war in Ukraine several times.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, only one regional center, Kherson, has come under the control of the Russian invaders. Parts of Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv oblasts were also captured.
The Armed Forces launched a counter-offensive in the south and east of Ukraine, striking Russian warehouses with ammunition and enemy manpower, and succeeded in liberating almost the whole of Kharkiv Oblast.
After the successes of the Armed Forces on the battlefield, the invaders in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya oblasts held sham referendums among the local residents (often at gunpoint) on joining Russia, and on Sept. 30, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia had annexed the captured Ukrainian territories.
The claimed annexations are illegal and have gone unrecognized by most countries.
A partial mobilization was announced in the Russian Federation on Sept. 21.
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