Russian military losses top 1m in three-year-old war, Ukrainian military says

A rescue worker puts out a fire of a car near a building which was damaged by a Russian strike in Kharkiv (Ukrainian Emergency Services of Ukraine via AP/PA)

The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped one million, military officials in Kyiv said on Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its three-year-old invasion.

The claim by the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces is in line with Western intelligence estimates.