General Staff: Russia has lost 1,472,640 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The figure includes 1,390 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
On August 21, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces disclosed that Russian forces have suffered approximately 1.47 million casualties in the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which commenced on February 24, 2022. This tally encompasses 1,390 Russian fatalities reported in the preceding day. The war has resulted in the loss of an estimated 472,849 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,052 multiple launch rocket systems, and 2,333 unmanned ground systems, among other military equipment.
The Ukrainian General Staff has refrained from disclosing its own casualties due to operational confidentiality, and Western analyses concur that Russian losses significantly surpass those of Ukraine, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimating a casualty ratio of around 2.5:1 or 2:1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky highlighted in a February 4 interview that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action, along with a substantial number going missing in action.
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