Russian casualties of war

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Russian casualties of war lists deaths of Russian armed forces and Russian citizens caused by conflicts in which Russia was involved. The Soviet wars listed below also include deaths of all Soviet armed forces and all Soviet citizens caused by conflicts in which the Soviet Union was involved.

ConflictStartEndMilitary deadMilitary woundedCivilian deadTotal deadNote
World War 2 193919458,668,40014,685,59315,900,00024,568,400Krivosheev, G. F [1]
World War 1 191419181,700,000–2,254,369Russia and the USSR in the Wars of the 20th Century [2]
Russo-Ukrainian War 2014Present308,000–445,000Mediazona, February

2026

Crimean War 18531856450,015–630,000Clodfelter [3] , Kozelsky
Polish–Soviet War 1918191960,00060,000Rummel p 55 [4]
Soviet–Afghan War 1979198814,50053,75310014,500Casualties of the War in Afghanistan [5]
First Chechen War 1994199614,00052,00014,000Casualty Figures, Jamestown Foundation – first Chechen War [6]
Soviet–Japanese War 7 August 19452 September 19459,78019,5629,780When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler [7]
Second Chechen War 199920096,02930,00036,029"Defense and Security / PressPATROL [8]
Soviet invasion of Poland 17 September 19396 October 19393,00020,0003,000Sanford pp. 20–24 Sanford, George [9]
Russo-Georgian War 7 August 200812 August 200816228365227"The Tanks of August" [10]
Table by month of the official estimates of "Casualties of the Russian troops in Ukraine" numbers (from the General Staff of the AFU) [11]
Month and yearCumulativeMonthly net
February 2022 [11] 5,300 [12] 5,300
March 202217,500 [13] 12,200
April 202223,200 [14] 5,700
May 202230,500 [15] 7,300
June 202235,600 [16] 5,100
July 202240,830 [17] 5,230
August 202247,900 [18] 7,070
September 202259,080 [19] 11,180
October 202271,820 [20] 12,740
November 202288,880 [21] 17,060
December 2022105,960 [22] 17,080
January 2023127,500 [23] 21,540
February 2023149,240 [24] 21,740
March 2023173,360 [25] 24,120
April 2023190,510 [26] 17,150
May 2023207910 [27] 17,400
June 2023228,340 [28] 20,430
July 2023246,190 [29] 17,850
August 2023263,020 [30] 16,830
September 2023278,130 [31] 15,110
October 2023300,810 [32] 22,680
November 2023328,760 [33] 27,950
December 2023359,230 [34] 30,470
January 2024385230 [35] 26,000
February 2024413760 [36] 28,530
March 2024442,170 [37] 28,410
April 2024468,720 [38] 26,550
May 2024507,650 [39] 38,930
June 2024542,700 [40] 35,050
July 2024578,120 [41] 35,420
August 2024614,950 [42] 36,830
September 2024653,060 [43] 38,110
October 2024694,950 [44] 41,890
November 2024740,400 [45] 45,450
December 2024789,550 [46] 49,150
January 2025837,610 [47] 48,060
February 2025874,560 [48] 36,950
March 2025915,230 [49] 40,670
April 2025951,960 [50] 36,730
May 2025987,330 [51] 35,370
June 20251,020,010 [52] 32,680
July 20251,053,260 [53] 33,250
August 20251,082,140 [54] 28,880
September 20251,110,560 [55] 28,420
October 20251,141,830 [56] 31,270
November 20251,172,860 [57] 31,030
December 20251,207,910 [58] 35,050
January 20261,239,590 [59] 31,680

Russian troop KIAs are worse than WWI. [60] [61] [62] The November 2023 monthly Russian troop casualties doubled the number from March 2022. It took 20 months of NATO's frantic attempts by every conceivable conventional means to succeed in assisting the AFU to double the monthly number of Russian troop casualties. [63] But the SVR succeeded in slowing the doubling again rate (55,900/mo). The percent increase between the first calendar month and the last calendar month forecasts the next 500,000 casualties to occur before the end of the next calendar year. The sustaining effect of Russia's increasing recruiting rate is a major warfare issue.

References

  1. ↑ Krivosheev, G. F. (1997). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-280-4.
  2. ↑ "Россия И СССР В Войнах XX Века. Глава II. Первая Мировая Воойна". www.rus-sky.com. Archived from the original on 2025-02-03. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  3. ↑ Clodfelter (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures.
  4. ↑ Rudolph J. Rummel (1990). Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917. Transaction Publishers. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-56000-887-3. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "The Soviet War In Afghanistan" The Atlantic 8/2014 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989/100786/
  6. ↑ Casualty Figures, Jamestown Foundation, Archived August 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140814003203/http://www.cdi.org/russia/245-14.cfm
  7. ↑ Glantz, David M. & House, Jonathan (1995), When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, ISBN 0-7006-0899-0, p. 300
  8. ↑ "Defense and Security / PressPATROL / Media Monitoring Agency WPS". old.wps.ru.
  9. ↑ (2005). Katyn and the Soviet Massacre Of 1940: Truth, Justice And Memory. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-33873-5.
  10. ↑ Tanks 2010, pp. 130–135. https://web.archive.org/web/20110128165000/http://www.cast.ru/files/The_Tanks_of_August_sm_eng.pdf
  11. 1 2 "Casualties of the Russian troops in Ukraine". index.minfin.com.ua/en/. Kyiv: Ministry of Finance Media. 2022-02-28. Retrieved 2025-11-15.
  12. ↑ 28 February 2022 [...] Military personnel — [...] 5,300 people
  13. ↑ 31 March 2022
  14. ↑ 30 April 2022
  15. ↑ 31 May 2022
  16. ↑ 30 June 2022
  17. ↑ 31 July 2022
  18. ↑ 31 August 2022
  19. ↑ 30 September 2022
  20. ↑ 31 October 2022
  21. ↑ 30 November 2022
  22. ↑ 31 December 2022
  23. ↑ 31 January 2023
  24. ↑ 28 February 2023
  25. ↑ 31 March 2023
  26. ↑ 30 April 2023
  27. ↑ 31 May 2023
  28. ↑ 30 June 2023
  29. ↑ 31 July 2023
  30. ↑ 31 August 2023
  31. ↑ 30 September 2023
  32. ↑ 31 October 2023
  33. ↑ 30 November 2023
  34. ↑ 31 December 2023
  35. ↑ 31 January 2024
  36. ↑ 29 February 2024
  37. ↑ 31 March 2024
  38. ↑ 30 April 2024
  39. ↑ 31 May 2024
  40. ↑ 30 June 2024
  41. ↑ 31 July 2024
  42. ↑ 31 August 2024
  43. ↑ 30 September 2024
  44. ↑ 31 October 2024
  45. ↑ 30 November 2024
  46. ↑ 31 December 2024
  47. ↑ 31 January 2025
  48. ↑ 28 February 2025
  49. ↑ 31 March 2025
  50. ↑ 30 April 2025
  51. ↑ 31 May 2025
  52. ↑ 30 June 2025
  53. ↑ 31 July 2025
  54. ↑ 31 August 2025
  55. ↑ 30 September 2025
  56. ↑ 31 October 2025
  57. ↑ 30 November 2025
  58. ↑ 31 December 2025
  59. ↑ 31 January 2026
  60. ↑ 15 June 2024 [...] Military personnel — [...] 525,150 people
  61. ↑ Krutov, Mark; Eckel, Mike; Dobrynin, Sergey; Gutterman, Ivan; Grojec, Wojtek; Shrek, Karl; Zhalalis, Loukas (2025-02-21). "166,000 wounded and sick. Defense Ministry hospital patient database". svoboda.org. Prague: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2025-11-15. mid-June 2024{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  62. ↑ (525150-166000)/525150=.683 * casualties from the last calendar month
  63. ↑ April 1, 2022 to December 1, 2023 was 20 months
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