Nearly 1,000 Russians die in a single day as Vladimir Putin's forces receive 'old guns'

Nearly a thousand Russian soldiers have died in just 24 hours, officials say in Kyiv, as new intelligence says new recruits of Putin were equipped with obsolete equipment rifles

Kyiv says nearly a thousand Russian soldiers died in Ukraine on Sunday (

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Nearly a thousand Russian soldiers were killed in the deadliest day of fighting since the start of the war in Ukraine, officials in Kyiv say.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the statement on Monday after revealing that 71,200 of Vladimir Putin's soldiers are believed to have died since the start of the invasion in February.

A total of 950 of them were killed on Sunday alone, they said, as Volodymyr Zelensky's forces continued to advance towards the key southern city of Kherson.

The latest count puts the number of Russian soldiers killed by Ukrainian forces in October at 12,730, an average of 400 days.

This means that 71,200 of Vladimir Putin's soldiers have died since the invasion began in February (

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This happened when the British Ministry of Defense reported that many reservists sent by Moscow during the recent mass mobilization suffered from a lack of equipment and combat readiness.

A tweet about the MoD official