{"id":50595,"date":"2026-05-17T05:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/russia-lost-another-1170-troops-and-an-aircraft-in-one-day-general-staff-of-the-afu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:21:23","slug":"russia-lost-another-1170-troops-and-an-aircraft-in-one-day-general-staff-of-the-afu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/russia-lost-another-1170-troops-and-an-aircraft-in-one-day-general-staff-of-the-afu\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia lost another 1,170 troops and an aircraft in one day \u2013 General Staff of the AFU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past day, the Russian army lost another 1,170 troops at the front. Ukrainian defenders also destroyed an aircraft, 82 artillery systems, and more than 2,000 operational-tactical level drones. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>According to the estimates of the Ukrainian command, Russia&#039;s total combat losses from February 24, 2022, to May 17, 2026, amount to approximately 1,348,790 military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>According to the General Staff, over the past day, the defense forces also destroyed one tank, four armored fighting vehicles, two multiple launch rocket systems, and three air defense systems.<\/p>\n<h2>AFU destroyed over 2,000 Russian drones in one day<\/h2>\n<p>The Russian army suffered its greatest losses in unmanned equipment \u2013 the Ukrainian military eliminated 2,131 operational-tactical level UAVs.<\/p>\n<p>The occupiers also lost 325 units of motor vehicles and tankers, 13 ground robotic systems, and five units of special equipment.<\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/img\/2026\/05\/17\/1778990795-2761-large.webp\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Defense Forces of Ukraine destroyed two more cruise missiles of the Russian troops.<\/p>\n<h2>Total Russian losses exceeded 11,000 tanks<\/h2>\n<p>Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, according to the General Staff, Russia has lost 11,938 tanks, 24,578 armored fighting vehicles, and 42,215 artillery systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian military also destroyed 436 aircraft, 352 helicopters, 1,790 MLRS, and 1,384 air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>The General Staff emphasized that data on the losses of the Russian army are still being clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Woman injured and fires break out in Dnipro following Russian drone attack17.05.26, 01:03 \u2022 3802 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past day, the Russian army lost another 1,170 troops at the front. Ukrainian defenders also destroyed an aircraft, 82 artillery systems, and more than 2,000 operational-tactical level drones. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to UNN. Details According to the estimates of the Ukrainian command, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}