General Staff: Russia has lost 1,479,300 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The figure includes 1,230 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
According to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Russia has sustained an estimated 1,479,300 military casualties across various categories since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This figure encompasses 1,230 Russian fatalities from the previous day alone. The war toll includes losses in ground forces, armored equipment, vehicles, artillery, air defense systems, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and naval vessels.
Ukraine's General Staff has not disclosed its own troop losses due to operational secrecy concerns. Independent analyses by Western think-tanks corroborate Russia's heavier casualty burden, with estimates ranging from roughly 2.5 to 2 times the number of Ukrainian losses. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently stated that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action, though a significant number remain missing in action.
The ongoing conflict has exacerbated the challenge of retrieving the bodies of fallen soldiers for DNA confirmation due to the intensity of Russian aerial attacks.
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