The losses in the Ukraine war are enormous. According to Kiev, Russia is losing soldiers and equipment every day. An overview.
Kyiv – The Ukraine War continues with undiminished severity. There is no end to the conflict in sight. Russia and the Ukraine heavy fighting – and the losses continue to rise. However, official information on this is rare. The losses are treated as a military secret by both sides.
At the beginning of June, the Russian President Vladimir Putin evaded a question about his country’s losses in the Ukraine war. At the time, he pointed out that the number of deaths on the Russian side was significantly lower than that of the Ukrainian armed forces. The ratio was one to five, Putin said at the time.
Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war
The Ukrainian side, however, stresses that significantly more Russian soldiers than its own have died in the Ukraine war. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky The number of soldiers killed in its own ranks in February was reported to be 31,000. Ukraine now estimates the number of Russian soldiers killed and injured at more than half a million.
These figures come from the Ukrainian General Staff, which publishes new data on Russia’s losses every day. However, an independent verification of the data is not possible. According to the Ukrainian authorities, around 1,150 Russian soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded in combat in the past 24 hours. Since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022, the number of losses has thus amounted to almost 626,410.
| 9 September (Mon) | 1150 | 626,410 |
| 8 September (Sun) | 1270 | 625,260 |
| 7 September (Sat) | 1270 | 623,990 |
| 6 September (Fri) | 1170 | 622,720 |
| 5 September (Thu) | 1200 | 621,550 |
| 4 September (Wed) | 1390 | 620,350 |
| 3 September (Tue) | 1360 | 618,960 |
Tanks and drones: Russia also suffers heavy losses in equipment in the Ukraine war
The Russian military’s losses of vehicles, aircraft and equipment in the war against Ukraine are also high. The following list is an excerpt from the figures currently reported by the Ukrainian military (as of September 9). Here, too, the information cannot be independently verified.
- Tank: 8639 (+3 from the previous day)
- Armoured vehicles: 16,906 (+9)
- Artillery systems: 17,830 (+26)
- Multiple rocket launcher: 1180
- Air defence systems: 942
- Drones: 14,897 (+33)
- Cruise missiles: 2588
- Airplanes: 368
- Tankers and other vehicles: 24,262 (+44)
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NATO assesses Russia’s losses in Ukraine war
How NATOSecretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced in Brussels on March 14, 2024, that Western intelligence services believe that the number of soldiers killed or wounded in Russia’s war of aggression has now exceeded 350,000. The country is paying a very high price for marginal territorial gains, he said. Ukrainian attacks have also sunk or disabled a significant part of the Russian Black Sea fleet, Stoltenberg added.
Western intelligence services estimate Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war
In June, US Secretary of State Lloyd Austin put the number of Russian soldiers killed or seriously injured in the war at around 350,000. At the end of May, Great Britain to Russia’s losses. The British Ministry of Defence estimated at that time that around 500,000 Russian soldiers had been wounded or killed in the Ukraine war, including regular soldiers and around 20,000 members of the Wagner Group.
At the beginning of May, France also commented on the issue. Paris estimates Russia’s military losses at 500,000, of which 150,000 are said to be dead. The Russian service of the BBC and Media Zone have so far been able to definitively identify the names of 66,471 dead Russian soldiers. (red)
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