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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped 1 million, military officials in Kyiv said Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion.
Earlier this week, Ukraine repatriated another 1,212 bodies of its servicemen killed in the war, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Kyiv and Moscow have agreed to each hand over as many as 6,000 bodies and to exchange sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war and those aged under 25.
All of the Ukrainian troops need treatment, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a message on the Telegram messaging app.
The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped 1 million, military officials in Kyiv said Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion.
Ukraine hit the "bold target" of a microelectronics plant close to Moscow's city center, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.
Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to hold peace talks in Istanbul with no sign they are any closer to an agreement.
The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped 1 million, military officials in Kyiv said Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its three-year-old invasion.
A peace deal is in the "best interest" of Ukraine, Russia and the U.S, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday.