According to the Ukrainian military, the number of Russian casualties in the Ukraine war has exceeded 450,000 since February 2022.
Moscow – Russian armed forces continue to suffer heavy losses in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. In the past 24 hours alone, Russian losses amounted to over 800 soldiers, 48 artillery systems, 12 armored fighting vehicles and five tanks,
Ukrainian Pravda
reported on Wednesday (April 11), citing the Ukrainian military. In recent months, Russia has repeatedly paid for its military successes in the Ukraine war with high losses and large use of materials.
Casualties in Ukraine War: Russia reaches grim milestone
According to Kiev, Vladimir Putin's armed forces lost 830 soldiers last day, bringing Russia's total number of casualties, i.e. soldiers killed or injured, in the Ukraine war, which has been going on for more than two years, to 450,080. This number of reported Russian casualties roughly corresponds to the number of soldiers who, according to Ukraine, are stationed in total in Russian-controlled Ukraine. Vladimir Putin's army is also said to have deliberately not informed family members of soldiers who died in the Ukraine war about their deaths. Phone calls made by Ukrainian military intelligence are said to prove this.
Figures difficult to verify: losses in the Ukraine war estimated by the British government to be lower
The number of Russian casualties and casualties in the Ukraine war continues to rise rapidly, even though Western estimates of Russian casualties are lower than those of Ukraine. 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,
Newsweek
reports .
The numbers cannot be independently verified, but the Ukrainian military's figures provide some indication of the toll that the many grueling months of war are taking on the Russian armed forces.
Heavy losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Numbers rise rapidly during prolonged fighting
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. Deputy Major General of the Military Intelligence Service of Ukraine GUR, Vadym Skibitskyi, stated back on January 15 that 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.