russia has likely incurred approximately 950,000 casualties (killed and wounded) since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the UK Defense Intelligence reports.
In the first four months of 2025, russia likely sustained approximately 160,000 personnel losses. Should this dynamic persist for the rest of 2025, this would be the costliest year of the war for the russian troop count, continuing the year-on-year trend of growing casualty rates.
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The average daily russian casualties during April 2025 was just over 1,200, and totaled 36,000 throughout the month, according to the Ukrainian General Staff reporting. This was a moderate decrease from the daily average of 1,300 in March 2025.
Whilst the current casualties remain below the peak daily death toll of nearly 1,600 in late 2024, when russia was making territorial gains, they still lean towards the high end in the overall context of the conflict. So far in 2025, russia has not been able to translate continued heavy losses into significant advances in Ukraine.
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