Ukraine claims Russia lost 43,000 troops in July

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry says Russian forces suffered 42,860 battle casualties in July, one of the bloodiest months since the war began. The figure includes killed and wounded. Times Now reports that Kyiv has also claimed its biggest territorial gains in more than a year, retaking nearly 300 square miles and 26 settlements on the southern front.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck the Savasleyka airbase, an oil facility at Ust-Luga, and the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara, using long-range Flamingo cruise missiles. The attacks, over 400 miles from the border, mark an expansion of Kyiv’s campaign against Russian military and industrial infrastructure.

The casualties and territorial claims have not been independently verified. Russia does not publish comprehensive battlefield casualty figures. Meanwhile, Moscow continued its own long-range attacks, launching drones and missiles that killed a three-month-old child in Dnipro and injured 49 people across Ukraine.