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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,550,910 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,550,910 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Photo for illustrative purposes. Ukrainian military members stand guard at a position outside the southern city of Kherson, on Nov. 2, 2023, amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey/ AFP via Getty Images)

Russia has lost 1,550,910 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 Oct. 10.

The number includes 1,420 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 12,406 tanks, 25,515 armored combat vehicles, 160,946 vehicles and fuel tanks, 51,000 artillery systems, 2,201 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,699 air defense systems, 443 aircraft, 356 helicopters, 2,917 unmanned ground vehicles, 35 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.

While Ukrainian officials rarely disclose the figure, President Volodymyr Zelensky told France TV on Feb. 4 that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action since the beginning of the full-scale war, in addition to significant numbers who are missing in action.

The intensity of Russian drone attacks and the fighting has made it extremely difficult for Ukraine to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers, which are needed for DNA confirmation.

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