More than twice as many Russian soldiers killed than Ukrainians and the conflict is close to hitting two million casualties, analysis claims.
More than twice as many Russian soldiers have been killed than Ukrainians in the course of the Ukraine war so far and the conflict is close to hitting two million casualties, analysis claims.
Russia is suffering “massive numbers of fatalities and total casualties” and the “blood cost” of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine turning into a protracted war is becoming a “Russian vulnerability”, a report on the state of military losses in the war by the Center for Strategic and International Studies claims.
The total number of military casualties for both sides continues to rise and, at present rates of loss, will hit two million this Spring, they claimed. Included in this are approximately 1.2 million Russian casualties including killed in action, wounded, and mission, with 415,000 new casualties in 2025 alone.
Of those 1.2 million casualties since February 2022, it is estimated that between 275,000 and 325,000 Russian troops have been killed, the report states. This is a considerable number; is it more than all American battlefield deaths in Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq combined, and is five times higher than all Russian-Soviet wars since the Second World War combined.
