More and more deaths in the ranks of the Russian army, and in the last ten months they have increased faster than at any time since the invasion began of Ukraine left on February 24, 2022. An analysis of the military casualties is counted Bbcwhich calculates the figure relating to the period analyzed in approximately 160 thousand confirmed dead soldiers. But taking into account that the estimates of experts are approximately 50% higher than the verified deaths, recalls the British broadcaster, the estimated total of Russian soldiers deaths in these ten months would be placed in a range between 243 thousand and 352 thousand: more or less in line with the calculations of the Natoalthough the list of Bbc does not include those killed in service in the militias of two occupied regions in eastern Ukraine, estimated between 21 thousand and 23,500 fighters.
In the figures published daily by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, i Russians from February 2022 they would have recorded 1 million and almost 207 thousand losses, in the bulletin updated to date, but that figure not only sums, without distinguishing, the Russian soldiers killed and those injured or at least out of action and has no real confirmation. Bbc News Russian count them Russian losses at war together with the independent broadcaster Mediazona and to a group of volunteers since February 2022 and claims to maintain a list of real names, whose dead we were able to confirm using official reports, newspapers, social media and new memorials and even graves. “With the intensification of the peace efforts in 2025 under pressure from the administration of the President of the United States Donald Trump40% more were published in Russian sources obituaries compared to the previous year.” It is difficult to attribute the increase in Russian losses to a single factor, but the Kremlin sees territorial gains as a way to influence negotiations with governments in one’s favor United States: the assistant of Putin, Yuri Ushakov recently emphasized that the “latest successes” have had a positive impact.
According to the deputy head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedevby October 2018, 336 thousand people had enrolled, well over 30 thousand per month. The Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte he claimed that 25,000 Russian soldiers are killed every month. If both data are correct, the Russia continues to recruit more soldiers than it loses. Based on the obituaries and by relatives’ accounts, most of those who enlisted to fight did so voluntarily; However, there are reports of pressures e coercions, especially towards regular conscripts and those accused of criminal offences. Some recruits mistakenly believe that after enlisting for a year they will be able to return to their old life with money in their pockets. A new recruit can earn up to 10 million rubles (almost 110 thousand euros) a year. All contracts signed with the Ministry of Defense from September 2022 they are automatically renewed until the end of the war. According to the Natothe total number of Russian dead and wounded in the war is 1.1 million, while one official estimated the casualties at 250,000. This is in line with the calculations of Bbcwhich however does not include those killed while serving in the militias of two occupied regions in eastern Ukraine, which would number between 21,000 and 23,500 fighters.
As for the Ukrainian camp, which usually does not provide figures on its losses, last February Volodymyr Zelensky he estimated battlefield losses at 46 thousand and 380 thousand wounded. Tens of thousands of others are missing in action or held prisoner, he added Zelensky. “Based on other estimates and cross-referenced data, we believe that the number of Ukrainians killed so far is around 140 thousand,” he writes Bbc.
The increase in deaths – Most of the Russians killed at the front in 2025 had nothing to do with the army at the beginning of the full-scale war, data from the Bbc. But after the bloody battle for the city of Avdiivka in October 2023, there was a steady increase in victims among the so-called “volunteers”, i.e. those who voluntarily signed a contract since the beginning of the invasion. It seems that they now make up the majority of new Russian recruits, unlike the professional soldiers who joined the army before the invasion or those mobilized for military service afterwards. A year ago 15% of the Russian military those who died were volunteers, but in 2025 the percentage rose to one in three.
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