Ukraine’s military has claimed that Russian forces have suffered more than 1.3 million personnel losses since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion, according to figures released by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In its latest update, issued on April 12, Kyiv said Russia had lost 1,311,180 troops in total, including 1,070 casualties over the previous 24-hour period. The figures have not been independently verified.
The Ukrainian report also outlined continued heavy equipment losses, including tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery systems, drones and aircraft, reflecting what Kyiv describes as sustained attritional warfare across multiple fronts.
According to the data, Russia has lost 11,859 tanks, 24,384 armoured combat vehicles, nearly 40,000 artillery systems and more than 230,000 drones since February 2022, alongside dozens of naval vessels and aircraft.
Moscow does not publish regular official casualty figures, and Ukraine’s estimates are widely disputed by independent analysts and are not directly verifiable due to the conditions of active combat.
Ukrainian officials themselves rarely disclose full military losses. President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously acknowledged significant Ukrainian casualties during the war, while maintaining operational secrecy over detailed figures.
Western think tanks have produced broader estimates of total casualties on both sides. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has assessed that Russian losses are substantially higher than Ukraine’s, though its figures remain estimates rather than confirmed counts.
CSIS has also suggested that Ukrainian casualties may number in the hundreds of thousands since 2022, including both killed and wounded, underscoring the scale of attritional warfare across the front line.
As with all wartime reporting, battlefield claims from both sides cannot be independently verified in real time and are often subject to revision as new information emerges.
