Russia Report: 1.2 million Moscow soldiers wounded or dead
According to calculations by US experts, the Russian army has lost 1.2 million soldiers through injury or death in almost four years of aggressive war against Ukraine.
28.01.2026, 14:40
SDA
A report by the think tank CSIS in Washington estimates that 325,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since February 2022. For Ukraine, the losses were put at 500,000 to 600,000 soldiers, including 100,000 to 140,000 dead.
According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the figures are based on information from the military, intelligence services and governments of various countries. If the fighting continues at this intensity, the combined losses of both sides are expected to exceed two million soldiers in April, it says. "In no war since the Second World War has a major power suffered such high casualties and death tolls," the authors write about the Russian side.
Kremlin refers to the military
Both warring parties treat their casualty figures as classified information. In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that figures such as those in the report should not be considered credible. Only the Ministry of Defense is authorized to publish figures on Russian losses, he told the state news agency Tass.
The calculation in the USA is in line with the information provided by the Ukrainian General Staff in Kiev, which also assumes that 1.23 million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded. The figure is said to be based on intercepted radio communications from the Russian side, among other things, but cannot be verified in detail.
Obituaries are being analyzed
For both countries, there are attempts to count confirmed deaths of soldiers based on funerals, obituaries or posts on social networks. In Russia, the news portal "Mediazona" estimated in mid-February that 163,600 soldiers had been confirmed dead.
The Ukrainian website ualosses.org puts the figure at 87,000 dead soldiers, 86,000 missing and 4,400 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia. Both counts are based on the assumption that they are incomplete, as in many cases the deaths are not known.
