Russian casualties in the Ukraine war have exceeded 450,000 since February 2022. In the past 24 hours alone, Russian losses amounted to over 800 soldiers, 48 artillery systems, 12 armored fighting vehicles and five tanks.
Russia recruits around 30,000 soldiers every month, which the Russian military uses to make up for personnel losses in Ukraine and create tactical and operational reserves. The number of casualties tends to rise sharply during protracted fighting, such as the Russian attacks on the Donetsk town of Bakhmut in early 2023 and the Russian offensive on the strategically important town of Avdiivka in October 2023. The recently accelerated pace of Russian offensive operations in Ukraine will likely result in higher losses of manpower and materiel. But the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) appears to be successfully offsetting these losses, the Institute for the Study of Wars said last week. The British government announced on March 3 that the total number of Russian casualties - killed and wounded - between February 2022 and early March 2024 was 355,000.