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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,388,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,388,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Servicemen of the Special Rifles Alcatraz Battalion, a penal battalion, attend a Trinity Day service led by chaplains of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade at an undisclosed location in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on May 31, 2026. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Russia has lost around 1,388,050 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 18.

The number includes 1,370 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,038 tanks, 24,779 armored combat vehicles, 108,425 vehicles and fuel tanks, 44,240 artillery systems, 1,877 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,431 air defense systems, 436 aircraft, 353 helicopters, 357,589 drones, 1,684 unmanned ground vehicles, 33 ships and boats, and two submarines.

Ukraine's General Staff has not revealed its own losses during the war, 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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