Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian losses in recent offensive around Avdiivka ‘likely to be worst of 2023’

Russian losses around Avdiivka probably the worst of 2023, says UK

Here are today’s casualty numbers, from Ukraine’s armed forces. The figures have not been independently verified.

Ukraine’s armed forces claimed on Saturday that Russia had lost 298,420 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion last year. It said Russia suffered 740 casualties in the last day.

And here is the UK’s ministry of defence’s intelligence update from earlier this morning, where it said that Russia’s forces around the Donetsk oblast town of Avdiivka have “likely suffered” some of its highest casualty rates of 2023 so far.