The Russian army has lost more than 38,000 soldiers since Ukrainian forces launched a surprise breakthrough last summer in the Russian border region of Kursk. Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi,

The Russian army has lost over 38,000 troops and more than 1,000 pieces of equipment since the beginning of Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Jan.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied by daily combat losses and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk.

Overall, the Russian forces have suffered over 775,000 personnel killed or wounded in over 1,000 days of fighting.

Russia's losses in its invasion of Ukraine are thought to have soared in recent months while its forces have slowly advanced.

Russia lost 1,080 soldiers on the frontline in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army has lost more than 793,000 troops, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.