The russian army has lost about 51 250 military personnel up to 8 September, over 640 occupiers have been eliminated in the last 24 hours - the General Staff has said on Facebook.
Other losses from 24 February to 8 September had reached:
2112 (+15) tanks,
4557 (+37) armoured vehicles,
1126 (+32) artillery systems,
305 (+5) multiple launch rocket systems,
159 (+3) anti-aircraft systems,
239 (+2) warplanes,
210 (+2) helicopters,
884 (+4) UAVs,
214 (+0) cruise missiles,
15 (+0) warships/boats,
3344 (+24) vehicles and fuel tankers,
110 (+1) pieces of special equipment.
The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk area.
640 occupiers are the largest confirmed daily number of enemy personnel losses in a long time.
According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyy and First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence, Lieutenant-General Mykhailo Zabrodskyi the war of russia against the Ukrainians has long been beyond the concept of a local conflict of medium intensity. Now there is reason to believe that hostilities will continue after the end of this year.