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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,425,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,425,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Ukrainian service members of the 148th Artillery Brigade fire the M777 howitzer from a camouflaged firing position on the southern front line on Sept. 4, 2025 in Ukraine. (Taras Ibragimov/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russia has lost around 1,425,990 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 July 17.

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

According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,148 tanks, 24,946 armored combat vehicles, 121,216 vehicles and fuel tanks, 46,084 artillery systems, 1,943 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,496 air defense systems, 437 aircraft, 354 helicopters, 412,884 drones, 1,932 ground robotis systems, 34 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 to 140,000 are thought to be killed in action (KIA).

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