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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,372,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,372,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers monitor a Russian FPV drone on the streets of Druzhkivka, one of the key cities in Ukraine's fortress belt in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on May 30, 2026. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Russia has lost around 1,372,270 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on June 6.

The number includes 1,380 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,983 tanks, 24,696 armored combat vehicles, 103,658 vehicles and fuel tanks, 43,397 artillery systems, 1,837 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,405 air defense systems, 436 aircraft, 353 helicopters, 331,818 drones, 1,585 unmanned ground vehicles, 33 ships and boats, and two submarines.

Ukraine's General Staff has not revealed its own losses during the full-scale invasion, citing operational secrecy.

Independent Western think-tank reports agree that the Russian casualties significantly surpass Ukraine's losses, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimating the ratio to be "roughly 2.5:1 or 2:1."

A January 2026 CSIS report said Ukraine has likely suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties from February 2022 to December 2025, of which between 100,000 and 140,000 are thought to be killed in action (KIA).

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