Thinktank warns the scale of losses is unprecedented as the conflict grinds on with little territorial change.
Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the combined number of soldiers killed, wounded or missing on both sides could approach two million by this spring, according to a new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The Washington-based thinktank estimates Russian forces have suffered around 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 deaths, while Ukrainian losses are put at close to 600,000. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv publishes full casualty figures, and the Kremlin dismissed the report as unreliable, insisting only Russia’s defence ministry can release official data.
