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Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Russian army has lost about 900,000 troops, according to UK intelligence estimates.
This is reported on the British Ministry of Defense’s page in X
According to British intelligence, the Russian armed forces have probably lost about 900,000 troops in killed and wounded since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Of these, between 200 and 250 thousand Russian soldiers are likely to have been killed, which is Russia’s largest loss since World War II, intelligence officials said.
The UK suggests that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and the Russian military leadership are likely to put their goals in the war above the lives of Russian soldiers.
“They are almost certainly willing to endure sustained high casualties if this does not negatively affect public or elite support for the war, and if these casualties can be replaced,” the analysis said.
The UK argues that the Kremlin’s master and the Russian leadership are likely to place much less value on the lives of Russian citizens who “belong to ethnic minorities and live in poor regions, and as a result, Russian recruitment efforts are disproportionately focused on these areas.”
The analysis emphasized that Russians from urban centers such as Moscow and St. Petersburg have contributed “disproportionately fewer soldiers than their poorer ethnic minority compatriots.”
Recently, a British intelligence analysis stated that since the beginning of 2025, the Russian occupation army’s losses in Ukraine have amounted to 90,000 military personnel killed and wounded.
British intelligence also analyzed the state of the Russian army as of the third year of the full-scale war against Ukraine and described its losses.
In addition, the intelligence officers wrote that the Russian Federation is forcibly distributing its passports in the occupied territories, which are also the basis for conscription into the Russian army.
