As Russia marks Russia Day, Kyiv reports that over one million Russian troops have been killed or injured since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a rare diplomatic greeting and called for a “durable peace.

Nearly 1 million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study, a grisly measure of the human cost of Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked three-year assault on its neighbor.

With high casualty figures and the slow pace of Russia’s territorial gains, President Vladimir V. Putin could face years more of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.