Russian losses

Ukraine obtains internal Russian loss assessments

Ukrainian intelligence has obtained internal Russian reports on battlefield losses, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on March 10.

10 March, 07:57 PM

167 dead per km: Russia’s brutal 2025 toll in Ukraine

An average of 167 Russian soldiers were killed for every kilometer of occupied Ukrainian territory in 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Feb. 23.

24 February, 08:36 AM

Soaring casualties and desertions sap Russia’s offensive push in Ukraine

Losses suffered by Russian forces in the war against Ukraine have risen sharply, reducing the likelihood of a battlefield breakthrough, the Financial Times reported, citing Ukrainian and European officials.

10 February, 08:33 PM

Russia turns missile troops, pilots, and sailors into infantry - Ukrainian Colonel

A notable and telling trend has emerged inside the Russian military: rare, highly trained specialists are being reassigned en masse to frontline infantry roles, Viktor Kevliuk, Ukrainian Colonel and expert in Defense Strategies, wrote on Jan. 28.

29 January, 09:56 AM

Ukraine hits Russian oil terminal, radar sites in Crimea and occupied Donbas

Ukraine’s General Staff said its Defense Forces carried out a series of overnight precision strikes on Jan. 22, hitting the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in the village of Volna in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai and multiple military targets across temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory.

22 January, 03:48 PM

Zelenskyy: Russia losing up to 30,000 troops killed each month in Ukraine war

Russia is losing nearly 30,000 soldiers killed each month in the war Moscow has launched against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Dec. 16 while addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Dutch Parliament.

16 December 2025, 03:41 PM

Russia loses 890 troops, 19 artillery systems in one day — General Staff

Russia has lost about 890 soldiers in its war against Ukraine, total Russian losses amount to an estimated 1,162,120 troops killed or wounded, AFU General Staff reported on Nov. 20.

20 November 2025, 10:39 AM

Occupied Luhansk sees hidden mobilization push as Russian losses mount

A new wave of covert mobilization has begun in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast, regional governor Oleksiy Kharchenko reported on Nov. 16.

16 November 2025, 06:36 PM

Russia may seize Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad - only to bleed for every block

Russian occupiers will likely be able to temporarily occupy Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, but doing so will require more time and will cost them heavily, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on Nov. 11.

12 November 2025, 11:17 AM

Russian army loses over 1,000 soldiers in one day

Approximately 1,020 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded on the frontlines in Ukraine over the past day, the General Staff reported on Facebook on Nov. 11.

11 November 2025, 08:27 AM

Russia's Rosgvardia rear units thrown into assaults at Chasiv Yar

Russian Federal National Guard Troops Service (Rosgvardia) are being transferred into assault detachments fighting in the Chasiv Yar area of Donetsk Oblast, Atesh partisan movement wrote on Oct. 30.

30 October 2025, 01:20 PM

Russia still sends disposable infantry; reserves start to run dry — video

Russia can still afford to send infantry one-way to Ukraine's front, but this resource is ending, deputy commander of the Lubart brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Andrii Dyachenko said in an interview with Radio NV on Oct. 21.

22 October 2025, 09:25 AM

Russia losing troops five times faster than Ukraine despite manpower gap

Russia’s major summer offensive in Ukraine failed to deliver the territorial gains the Kremlin hoped for, despite record numbers of mobilized troops and months of sustained assaults. Territorial advances remain minimal, while losses are enormous, The Economist reported on Oct. 17.

18 October 2025, 07:30 PM

Big money no longer buys Russian soldiers, ISW says

Russia’s strategy of luring new military recruits with massive financial incentives — its primary tool for filling the ranks with volunteer fighters — appears to be losing steam, the Institute for the Study of War said in its Oct. 12 report.

13 October 2025, 10:24 AM

Ratio of wounded to killed shows Russia taking ‘abnormally high’ battlefield losses in 2025 — ISW analysis

Russian forces are suffering an “abnormally high” killed-to-wounded ratio on the battlefield in Ukraine this year — far above wartime norms — analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said in their Oct. 7 report.

8 October 2025, 10:06 AM

Russia suffers manpower losses as Ukraine pushes forward in Dnipropetrovsk sector

Russian forces in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast are taking heavy losses as Ukrainian troops carried out successful assaults and cleared several settlements, the DeepState monitoring project and Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, reported on Oct. 3.

4 October 2025, 10:05 AM

Over 700,000 Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, Putin says

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that more than 700,000 Russian uniformed personnel are deployed against Ukraine as of Sept. 18, according to state propaganda outlet TASS.

18 September 2025, 11:51 PM

Russia loses 305k+ troops in 2025 alone — video

Ukraine’s Defense Forces have eliminated more than 300,000 Russian troops in 2025, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on Sept. 16.

17 September 2025, 07:54 AM

Russian man shocked by mass burials of soldiers killed in Ukraine — video

A resident of the town of Myski in Russia’s Kemerovo Oblast posted a video online showing rows of graves of Russian soldiers who went to fight in Ukraine and returned home in coffins, Crimean Wind channel wrote on Sept. 16.

16 September 2025, 01:49 PM

Ukrainian intelligence records call exposing catastrophic Russian losses

Russia continues to suffer heavy personnel losses in its war against Ukraine, as evidenced by a new audio intercept, published by Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR), on Sept. 15.

15 September 2025, 11:30 AM

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