Russia Has Lost Nearly One and a Half Million Soldiers
Kyiv's General Staff Releases Latest Figures on Russian Casualties in the War, with Independent Centers Estimating They Are Twice as High as Ukraine's.
Kyiv's General Staff Releases Latest Figures on Russian Casualties in the War, with Independent Centers Estimating They Are Twice as High as Ukraine's.
Russia has lost approximately 1,454,210 soldiers since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. The Kyiv Independent portal relayed this data.
The figure includes 1,330 Russian soldiers who, according to Ukrainian estimates, were killed over the past day. The Ukrainian General Staff traditionally does not release its own casualty figures, citing operational secrecy.
In addition to human casualties, the report provides an extensive list of destroyed Russian military equipment. According to Kyiv's data, Moscow has so far lost:
Independent Western research centers confirm that Russian losses are significantly higher than Ukraine's. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has estimated the casualty ratio at "roughly 2.5 to 1 or 2 to 1" in Ukraine's favor.
In a CSIS report published in January 2026, it is stated that Ukraine likely suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 total casualties from February 2022 to December 2025. According to estimates, the number of soldiers killed in combat ranges from 100,000 to 140,000 of that total.
Although Ukrainian officials rarely release their own figures, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on February 4, 2026, to French television France TV that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the start of the war, with a significantly higher number missing in action. Due to the intensity of Russian drone attacks and ongoing fighting, Ukraine finds it extremely difficult to locate and recover the bodies of the fallen, which are needed for DNA analysis to confirm identities.