Russia has lost more than one million troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian military has claimed. The claim by the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces is in line with Western intelligence estimates and underlines the huge price paid by Moscow for its three-year-old invasion.

"As a result of the repatriation activities ... , the bodies of 1,212 fallen Defenders have been returned to Ukraine," the prisoner exchange coordination body said on the Telegram messaging app.