“In early July, Meduza reported that the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosststat) stopped reporting on the number of deaths in Russia. The Institute of War Research, analyzing this news, suggested that this step is part of the Kremlin’s efforts to conceal Russia’s losses from war in Ukraine”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to command, the total losses of Russia during the full -scale war reached approximately 1,029,660 personnel.
The headquarters also updated data on the loss of Russian equipment:
- 11,000 tanks (+5 in the past day)
- 22,969 combat armored vehicles (+2)
- 30 102 artillery systems (+68)
- 1434 Reactive Systems Fire Systems
- 1 193 Air Defense Defense (+1)
- 421 aircraft
- 340 helicopters
- 44 457 drones of operative-tactical level (+227)
- 3 439 winged missiles
- 28 ships and boats
- 1 submarine
- 54 575 cars and tanks (+119)
- 3 929 special equipment (+2)
In early July, the Russian edition of Meduza reported that the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosststat) stopped reporting on the number of deaths in Russia. The American Institute for War Research, analyzing this news, suggested that this step is part of the Kremlin’s efforts to hide Russia’s losses from war in Ukraine.
Earlier, waswed that Rosststat conceals data on the population, trying to hide the demographic problems of Russia, and the exclusion of demographic data in Rosstat’s reports, probably also aims to hide high losses of personnel of the Russian military.
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Russia does not officially disclose its losses. Moscow last called the number of killed in September 2022 – then declared 5937 dead. On March 5, intelligence of the United Kingdom said that, since the beginning of 2025, Russia probably lost about 90,000 soldiers killed and wounded in the war against Ukraine.
Kyiv also did not voice losses for a long time, stating that the data would be disclosed after the war. At the same time, on February 16, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News that since February 2022, Ukraine lost more than 46,000 soldiers and about 380,000 in the war.