Despite its introduction as one of Russia’s newer tank series, the T-90 has not performed as well as expected in Ukraine. In fact, the open-source intelligence tracker group Oryx recently estimated that roughly 145 T-90s had been lost,

The total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022, to October 4, 2025, have reached approximately 1,114,380 personnel, including 950 eliminated in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.

Russia has lost around 1,112,460 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Oct. 2. The number includes 980 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Artillery, missiles, tanks and trench warfare dominated the first years of the war, but no longer, our Ukraine correspondent Marc Santora and his colleagues have reported. Drones do most of the killing now.

One recent advance in Ukraine’s homegrown arsenal is a quadcopter drone that can evade Russian jamming devices, fly more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) and drop six kilograms (13 pounds) of guided explosives onto tanks and other high-value targets.

Tanks have proved vulnerable to drones and play a limited role in Ukraine, but many NATO countries are still buying and developing them.

North Korea currently provides Russia with 35–50% of its ammunition requirements, delivering 200,000–260,000 shells of 152 mm and 122 mm per month. — Ukrinform.

Even though the Kremlin has lost thousands of tanks and other armored vehicles in the Ukraine War, its latest platforms continue to earn high praise.

As Donald Trump is set to decide whether to send long-range missiles to Ukraine, The Independent takes a look at which countries are the key military backers behind war in Europe