Russian Casualties Hit Record as Ukraine Leverages Expanded Drone Strikes

Russian forces suffered their highest monthly casualties of the war in March, with Ukraine reporting over 35,000 Russian troops killed. Ukrainian officials attribute nearly all these losses—an astonishing 96%—to precision drone strikes, with the rest caused by artillery and small arms fire. This marks a 29% increase over February's figures and eclipses the previous record set in December. Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov emphasized the accuracy of these statistics, citing video eviden