The Russian military suffered record casualties in Ukraine last month while also ceding some territory to Kyiv’s forces.

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More than 54,000 Russian troops were killed and heavily wounded in October, the most since the full-scale invasion began almost five years ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday. Ukraine uses drone footage to document casualty numbers, which have now exceeded Russia’s monthly recruitment rate.

European government assessments shared with Bloomberg show similar figures, with the proportion of troops killed also at a record.

For the second month running, Kyiv’s forces have also managed to regain more territory than Russia was able to seize, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Moscow’s troops are even losing territory in the key eastern Donbas region, which Vladimir Putin wants to control in full.

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