200 Russian Army Personnel In Ukraine Died In Just One Day

Russia suffered 200 combat losses among its personnel in one day, data provided by the Ukrainian military indicated.

Russia's combat losses between the start of its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 and Thursday numbered 44,300, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its most recent casualty report.

The previous report that recorded Russian personnel losses up to Wednesday put the figure at 44,100.

Russian losses also included 1,889 tanks, 4,179 armored fighting vehicles, 234 aircraft and 197 helicopters, among other pieces of military equipment, according to the Ukrainian military's updated report.

Most of the recently recorded losses were in the direction of Ukraine's partially-occupied Donetsk region.

Russia's defense ministry last provided the country's official death toll from the war in late March, which claimed at the time that fatalities numbered 1,351.

Independent Russian media outlet Mediazona reported that it was able to confirm the deaths of 5,507 Russian soldiers in the ongoing conflict as of Aug. 12.

Russia may have already suffered between 70,000 and 80,000 casualties, U.S. Department of Defense Under Secretary Colin Kahl said earlier this month.

In contrast, around 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers died in the first 100 days of Russia's invasion, Oleksiy Arestovych, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, claimed in early June.

Between 100 and 200 Ukrainian troops were dying on the front line every day, Mykhaylo Podolyak, another presidential aide, revealed later that month.

Russian artillery outnumbered Ukraine's by a factor of 20, according to Ukrainian and western intelligence officials. Meanwhile, Russian forces also allegedly had 40 times the amount of ammunition as their Ukrainian counterparts.

Ukraine needs "modern systems" and "modern artillery" to turn the tide against Russia, Zelensky said during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Spain in late June.

The administration of President Joe Biden, which has already committed about $9.8 million worth of aid to Ukraine, is readying another $800 million package for the country that could be announced as soon as Friday, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Biden would authorize the assistance using his Presidential Drawdown authority, which allows the head of state to authorize the transfer of excess weapons from U.S. stocks, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.