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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,449,120 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,449,120 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
A group of Ukrainian military engineers and army tankmen prepare and maintain a T80 tank, captured in the fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian soldiers in Kostiantynivka district, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on April 27, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Russia has lost around 1,449,120 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 Aug. 2.

The figure includes 1,500 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,231 tanks, 25,070 armored combat vehicles, 128,953 vehicles and fuel tanks, 47,196 artillery systems, 1,988 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,529 air defense systems, 439 aircraft, 354 helicopters, 2,108 unmanned ground 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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