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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,395,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,395,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Volunteers from the Ukrainian organization Platsdarm collect and transport the bodies of deceased Russian soldiers from combat positions at an undisclosed location in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on March 2, 2025, as part of efforts to identify the dead before they are transferred to Russia. (Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Russia has lost around 1,395,790 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 24.

The number includes 1,260 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,056 tanks, 24,816 armored combat vehicles, 111,257 vehicles and fuel tanks, 44,664 artillery systems, 1,889 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,440 air defense systems, 436 aircraft, 353 helicopters, 369,888 drones, 1,726 unmanned ground vehicles, 4,787 cruise missiles, 33 ships and boats, 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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