From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / June 13, 2025
As Russian Losses Hit Historic One Million Mark, Ukraine Strikes Electronics Plant Near Moscow While Republican Senators Warn Trump About KGB Tactics and Xi’s Chess Game
Summary of the Day – June 12, 2025
Russian losses hit one million killed and wounded as Ukraine struck Moscow’s Rezonit electronics plant and advanced into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Republican senators warned Trump that “weakness provokes a KGB man” while pushing bipartisan sanctions as Germany offered IRIS-T systems but refused Taurus missiles. Marco Rubio congratulated Russia on its National Day—first since invasion—drawing Ukrainian rebuke amid Israeli strikes on Iran. NATO’s gunpowder crisis exposed: Russia produces in three months what the alliance makes yearly. Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchanges continued under Istanbul accords while China replaced its Ukraine peace envoy and 100,000 Russian families sought missing soldiers.
Families of Ukrainian POW’s turn to those released during the 66th prisoner exchange, hoping to find out about their missed loved ones in an unspecified area of Ukraine. Ukraine returned the third group of military personnel, most held in Russian captivity since 2022, as part of a new prisoner exchange that was agreed upon by the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul, Turkey. (Maksym Kishka/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
One Million Ghosts: Putin’s Pyrrhic Victory Reaches Historic Toll
The Ukrainian General Staff announced that Russian forces have sustained over one million casualties since launching their full-scale invasion, with more than half occurring since January 2024. The grim milestone represents an unprecedented hemorrhaging of human life as Russia burns through personnel at an average rate of 1,286 soldiers per day in 2025.
The casualty breakdown revealed the escalating cost of Putin’s territorial ambitions: 106,720 in 2022 averaging 340 per day, 253,290 in 2023 averaging 693 per day, and 430,790 in 2024 averaging 1,177 per day. By June 2025, Russian forces already exceeded 200,000 casualties for the year, demonstrating unsustainable attrition rates.
Ukrainian Presidential Deputy Head Pavlo Palisa calculated that Russia sustains roughly 167 casualties per square kilometer of advance. Despite these catastrophic losses, Russian forces seized more territory in May 2025 than any month since late 2022, highlighting the Kremlin’s willingness to accept disproportionate sacrifices for marginal gains.
The million-casualty figure represents more than just statistics—it signifies the collapse of Russia’s professional military and its transformation into a contract-based force dependent on massive financial incentives.
Voice of Ukraine 