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Russia has suffered its highest number of troop losses in one day, according to Ukraine's military.
Ukraine's General Staff said on Monday that over the previous 24 hours, Russian losses totaled 2,980 personnel, a figure which includes both dead and wounded.
Both sides are tight-lipped about their losses during the war, and Moscow has not updated its official figures since September 2022 when it admitted at least 6,000 losses.
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However, Ukraine's figures come on the heels of Russian government data that was reportedly hacked from statistics department Rosstat indicating that as many as 450,000 Russian troops have been killed since the war started on February 24, 2022.
Ukraine's claims also come ahead of U.S.-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi starting on Tuesday. Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry and Rosstat for comment.
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What Was The Previous One Day Record For Russian Losses?
Ukraine's General Staff headlined its latest update of Russian troop losses "Every 29 seconds—minus one occupier."
The Telegram post on Monday referred to the 2,980 soldiers killed and wounded over the previous 24 hours as Ukraine's military said it beat the previous record of 2,500 recorded on November 2.
"This is more than the personnel of the six crews of the cruiser Moskva, and the largest daily losses of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the full-scale invasion," Ukraine's General Staff said, referring to the war ship that Ukraine sunk in the Black Sea in April 2022.
It comes as Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces on Sunday reported a new daily record of 801 Russian troops killed or wounded in drone operations.
Ukrainian drone units eliminated 281 Russian soldiers and wounded another 520, the statement said, marking their highest reported single-day total since it started compiling figures.
Ukraine's military said that so far this year, Russian forces have suffered 400,410 casualties, having crossed the grim milestone of 400,000 on Sunday for a total of 1,609,380 killed or wounded since February 24, 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told France TV on February 4 that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action since the start of the war, with significant numbers who are missing in action.
However, the previous month, think tank CSIS reported that Ukraine had likely suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties up to December 2025, of which between 100,000 and 140,000 are thought to have been killed.
What Are Total Russian Losses?
The Russian losses revealed by Ukraine appear to chime with the numbers that hacker groups Kiberpartizany BY and Silent Crow said they had discovered following a breach of Russia's Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
Kiberpartizany BY said that as of 27 August at least 393,881 Russian citizens have been killed in the war counting deaths in which military action or its consequences were listed as the cause.
Silent Crow gives an even higher figure of 450,100 which included those killed in combat, non-combat losses among military personnel and deaths marked as terrorist acts.
The higher figure also includes deaths of people registered in Russia but who died in occupied territories or in Ukraine, where the exact cause of death was not established.
There are other estimates of Russian deaths.
The joint database of BBC News Russian Service and Mediazona of dead Russian personnel identified by name contained around 286,000 names, although this is thought to be an underestimate.
A joint study by Meduza and Mediazona, based on inheritance registry data, put the number of dead much higher at around 350,000.
Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Tobias Meyjes and Tony Phillips.
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