Based strictly on cases documented by clear video evidence, Russia lost 30,727 military personnel to Ukrainian drone strikes in July alone.This was reported by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, Aug. 4, who made the remarks after receiving a report from Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) chief Oleksandr Poklad on the agency’s performance in July, along with a Defense Ministry report on Russian battlefield losses that same month.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“So the trend on the front remains unchanged,” Zelensky said, adding that “every month, the Russians lose about 30,000 troops.”According to him, the figure “includes both killed and badly wounded.”SSU’s Alpha unit leads on target engagementsThe SSU’s Alpha unit ranked first among Ukrainian units for successful target engagements in July, according to Zelensky.“We set the priorities for August,” Zelensky said, adding that he was “grateful to the SSU for the strong positions.”He also thanked international partners for supplying air defense missiles, calling air defense “the top priority,” while acknowledging that every package delivered to Ukraine “truly protects lives.”His statement comes as Patriot interceptors, the only systems currently capable of intercepting Russia’s ballistic missiles, remain scarce.Meanwhile, Russia has already exceeded its estimated monthly ballistic missile production within the first 19 days of July, simultaneously expending at least two-thirds of its planned annual output of 3M22 Zircon missiles.