Russia Loses Over Million Troops in War Against Ukraine
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have neutralized another 1,140 Russian occupiers. In total, since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's losses in the war have reached over 1 million soldiers killed and wounded.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.
The total combat losses of the Russians are estimated at:
- about 1,000,340 (+1,140) people,
- tanks – 10,933 (+6) units,
- armored combat vehicles – 22,786 (+3) units,
- artillery systems – 29,063 (+47) units,
- air defense systems – 1,184 (+1) units,
- tactical-level UAVs – 40,435 (+138) units,
- automotive equipment and tankers – 51,715 (+136) units.
The British Ministry of Defence reported on Thursday that of those one million, it is likely around 250,000 Russian soldiers are killed or missing (presumed dead). Those are Russia’s largest losses in an active conflict since the Second World War.
A fifth of the total losses (200,000) are estimated to have occurred just during the last six months of 2025.
Troops who are wounded “continue to strain the Russian Military Medical System at all levels”, which in turn causes logistically issues and a shortage of military medical personnel, the MoD reported.
The CSIS report gives similar information. It estimates between 200,000 and 250,000 dead Russian soldiers in total.
This, it says, means the fatality rate of Russian soldiers in Ukraine is several times higher than it was in Moscow’s two wars in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s and the 10-year Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
“Russia has suffered roughly five times as many fatalities in Ukraine as in all Russian and Soviet wars combined between the end of World War II and the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022,” the experts said.