Russian Losses in Ukraine Day 1,636 of the full-scale invasion

Russian Losses in Ukraine

Personnel · Total Losses

1,468,760

Daily-updated tracker of Russian personnel and equipment losses, from official reports of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

+1,440 today +9,550 past 7 days +41,350 past 30 days
Pieces of equipment 700,461 +2,802 today
Length of the war 1,636 days
Updated · Ministry of Defense of Ukraine — mod.gov.ua

Total Losses

Compared with past wars

Estimated Soviet and Russian military deaths in earlier wars, alongside Russia's reported casualties in Ukraine.

Russo-Japanese War  1904–1905 · 576 days
43,300–71,453 military deaths (est.) · ≈99 per day
Winter War  1939–1940 · 105 days
126,875–167,976 military deaths (est.) · ≈1,404 per day
Soviet–Afghan War  1979–1989 · 3,342 days
14,453–26,000 military deaths (est.) · ≈6 per day
First Chechen War  1994–1996 · 630 days
5,552–14,000 military deaths (est.) · ≈15 per day
Second Chechen War  1999–2009 · 3,541 days
6,029–11,000 military deaths (est.) · ≈2 per day
Russo-Georgian War  2008 · 6 days
67–170 military deaths (est.) · ≈19 per day
Russia's war in Ukraine 2022– · 1,636 days · ongoing
1,468,760 casualties (killed and wounded) · ≈897 per day

Russia's reported casualties in Ukraine already amount to roughly 72 times the Soviet death toll of the entire Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989).

Historical figures are estimated military deaths (low–high ranges from historical research; sources linked). The Ukraine figure counts casualties (killed and wounded) as reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, so the numbers are not directly equivalent.

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