““Average daily casualties amounted to 1,570 people – the fifth month in a row that Russian troops broke the record for average daily casualties””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
December 2024 was probably the “costliest” month of the war for Russia, with a total of 48,670 casualties. In November 2024, 45,680 losses among Russians were recorded. December became the sixth month in a row when Russian troops recorded an increase in monthly losses (staff – ed.)“, the department said.
The ministry added that “in December, average daily losses of Russians also reached a new monthly maximum.”
“The average daily losses amounted to 1,570 people – the fifth month in a row, when the Russian troops broke the record for average daily losses,” the Ministry of Defense said.
The department also drew attention to the fact that “on December 19, Russian troops lost 2,200 soldiers in one day, which became a record for the country since the beginning of the war.”
“Russia will likely continue to suffer high losses among the military in January 2025, continuing infantry attacks in various areas of the front,” the ministry concluded.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as of the morning of January 7, the Russian forces lost 1,970 of their soldiers in the last day, and in general, during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, about 800,010 people.
Russia and Ukraine give almost no information about their losses in the war. Moscow officially last named the number of people killed in September 2022 – then 5,937 people died. Kyiv did not do this for a long time, saying that the data would be disclosed after the war.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on December 8 that since the beginning of the full-scale war, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed and 370,000 wounded.
According to his data, the losses of the Russian Federation exceed 750 thousand – 198 thousand dead and more than 550 thousand wounded.
The head of the Pentagon said on December 7 that Russia lost at least 700,000 soldiers during the large-scale war against Ukraine and spent more than 200 billion dollars on it.
The total losses of the military of Russia and Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation in 2022 could exceed one million – such an estimate was given by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal on September 17. The WSJ estimated the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed at 80,000, Russian at approximately 200,000. About 400,000 people in the Ukrainian army and 400,000 in the Russian army were wounded, the newspaper writes.
Kyiv, commenting on data published by The Wall Street Journal about Ukraine’s losses in the war, said that the real figure is “much lower.”