Ukraine says Russian military losses in war top 1.54 million since 2022

Ukraine's military has estimated that Russia's total combat losses since the start of its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, have reached approximately 1,540,700 personnel killed or wounded, according to figures reported by Ukrinform and attributed to the Ukrainian General Staff.

The estimate, covering the period up to October 4, 2026, includes an additional 1,750 Russian troops reported killed or wounded over the preceding 24 hours. The figures represent a cumulative Ukrainian military tally rather than an independently verified casualty count.

Ukraine's General Staff publishes daily updates on what it describes as Russian personnel and equipment losses as part of its ongoing reporting on the war. These figures are compiled by the Ukrainian side and have not been independently verified by neutral third parties; Russia does not routinely publish comparable casualty figures of its own and disputes the scale of losses reported by Kyiv.

A running tally

The daily casualty estimates have become a regular feature of Ukrainian wartime reporting, tracking personnel losses alongside estimates of destroyed military equipment such as tanks, artillery systems and aircraft. Analysts have noted that such battlefield tallies, produced by parties to an active conflict, should generally be treated as one side's assessment rather than a confirmed count.