Ukraine’s military said Russia has lost over 1 million troops since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
According to daily updates from Ukraine’s General Staff, Russian military losses have reached 1,000,340 troops as of Thursday. The number includes soldiers killed, wounded, or otherwise taken out of combat.
According to the report, more than 628,000 of those casualties occurred in the past 18 months.
The figures have not been independently verified but align with similar estimates from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, released this month, which includes approximately 250,000 killed.
An estimate released by the U.K. Ministry of Defence in April put Russian losses at around 920,000.
The Ukraine’s General Staff’s report also details Russia’s losses including 10,933 tanks, 22,786 armored fighting vehicles, 51,579 vehicles and fuel tanks, 29,063 artillery systems, 1,413 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,184 air defense systems, 416 airplanes, 337 helicopters, 40,435 drones, 3,337 cruise missiles, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
Ukraine’s General Staff emphasized that reaching the one-million mark is more than just a statistic.
“One million. That’s how much the enemy’s offensive potential has diminished,” the General Staff wrote. “1 million who could have destroyed us, but whom we destroyed instead.”
The statement referenced key sites of Moscow’s defeats and losses in Ukraine: “in the Red Forest near Chernobyl, in the waters of the Dnipro near Antonivsky Bridge, in Donbas and Kharkiv region, and at the bottom of the Black Sea, where the cruiser Moskva sank.”
“This million neutralised occupiers is our response. Our memory of Bucha, Irpin, Kupyansk, Kherson… of the bombed-out maternity hospital in Mariupol and the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian missile. Of the tears of children, civilians shot dead, and destroyed homes.”
Kyiv also expressed its gratitude to every Ukrainian soldier involved in the fight, emphasizing that “every eliminated occupier is another step toward a just peace.”
In February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that over 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed on the battlefield since early 2022. He also said that nearly 380,000 soldiers were injured, with “tens of thousands” still either “missing in action” or held in Russian captivity.
