Russia Loses 32 Artillery Systems, 32 APVs and 1,100 Soldiers in a Day—Kyiv

Russia lost an estimated 1,100 soldiers, as well as dozens of pieces of artillery and vehicles, in a single day of fighting according to a Sunday update by the Ukrainian military.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed Russia has now lost 311,750 soldiers since it launched a full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. That figure includes the 1,100 soldiers in its November 12 update.

Kyiv said Russia passed the grim milestone of 300,000 deaths on October 31, when it reached 300,810 losses.

According to the General Staff, Russia also lost 32 artillery systems, 32 armored personnel vehicles, and seven tanks.

Newsweek has not been able to independently verify Ukraine's figures and estimates by other organizations, including the British Ministry of Defence, have shared lower numbers of Russian war dead.

British defense officials said Russia had suffered an estimated 190,000 casualties, including ones killed and permanently injured. Its figures did not include the thousands of Wagner Group mercenaries who died during the battle for Bakhmut.

Russia does not regularly comment on its own personnel casualty figures; when it has, it has been criticized by experts for not being accurate.

Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian General Staff and the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment via email.

Russia has recently focused its efforts on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, just north of Donetsk, following a surprise offensive against the town in October.

A November 11 campaign bulletin by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington D.C.-based think tank, said Russia had launched a large-scale missile and drone strike on Kyiv, the first major attack on the Ukrainian capital in 52 days.

"Ukrainian military sources reported on November 11 that Russian forces launched 31 Shahed 131/136 drones, two Kh-59 missiles, one Kh-31 missile, one P-800 Onyx anti-ship missile, and an S-300 missile against various targets in Ukraine, and specifically targeted Kyiv Oblast with either an Iskander-M or an S-400 missile," the ISW report said.

"Ukrainian air defenses downed 19 Shaheds (primarily targeting front line areas), one Kh-59 missile, and used a Patriot air defense system to destroy the ballistic missile targeting Kyiv Oblast."

The ISW also reported that Russian military bloggers had discussed whether infantry-led frontal assaults contribute to the positional warfare that Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi said both sides find themselves in.

Zaluzhnyi previously told The Economist there was parity between Russia and Ukraine, months into Kyiv's counteroffensive. "We have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate," he said.

He also reported that Ukrainian troops had been stuck in minefields placed on the approach to Bakhmut in the Donetsk oblast.

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