Ukraine Army Quotes Radiohead, Announces 510 More Russian Soldiers Die In One Day

The Ukrainian military quoted song lyrics from English rock band Radiohead as it reported that Russia lost 510 military personnel over the course of a single day this week.

Russia has suffered 99,740 casualties since it invaded Ukraine in late February, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MOD) announced in a post Wednesday, citing data provided by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A report from the previous day put the total number of Russian combat losses at the time at 99,230.

"Karma police, arrest this man," the Ukrainian MOD said in its Wednesday announcement.

The phrase was taken from Radiohead's 1997 single, "Karma Police."

Radiohead participated in an online event back in April that rallied support for Ukrainian refugees.

Ukraine's MOD regularly quotes famous personalities or their works in its Russian casualty reports.

The ministry quoted a line from English author Jane Austen's 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice" Tuesday.

It previously quoted comedian Dave Chappelle as well.

Russia last provided an official death toll from its invasion in September, when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that 5,937 Russian soldiers had died in Ukraine up to that point.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, revealed during a television interview that Ukraine has lost up to 13,000 of its troops in the war, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported on Dec. 1.

Both Russia and Ukraine could be underreporting their casualty counts, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense (MoD) has suggested.

Russia claimed it successfully mobilized more than 300,000 soldiers amid reports of its losses, but according to the Warsaw Institute, these newly drafted soldiers have been used as "cannon fodder" to either slow down Ukrainian assaults or cripple Ukraine's defensive positions.

There could be around 120,000 Russian casualties by the time spring arrives in the coming months, the Poland-based think tank predicted.

"[Russian President Vladimir Putin's] three-day war, or 'special operation,' turns out to have been a disaster for him and his army," British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told his country's parliament on Dec. 12.

Russia still refers to its invasion of Ukraine as a "special military operation."

Putin acknowledged during a televised meeting earlier this month that the campaign was taking longer than expected to finish.

Public support in Russia for the war is "falling significantly," the British MoD claimed.

Around 55% of Russians favored peace talks with Ukraine, while 25% wanted the invasion to continue, a closed opinion poll conducted in October by Russia's Federal Protective Service found.