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Zelensky says Russia lost 54,400 troops in October, "a record for any month"

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Official post · not independently verified. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote: "In just one month, Russia lost 54,400 troops killed or badly wounded. This is a record for any month of the full-scale war." He wrote that in October the Defense Forces "liberated 96.2 square kilometers of Ukrainian land", "10.4 square kilometers more than the occupiers managed to capture during that time". The figures are Ukraine's own. On X: 353,457 views and 1,930 reposts as of Mon 2 Nov, 04:12 ET.

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