Russia reportedly losing 8 troops for every 1 Ukrainian soldier killed
Russia is now losing eight troops for every one Ukrainian soldier killed in the battlefield, with Moscow’s army suffering 1.4 million casualties since the launch of the invasion in 2022, according to a new report.
While much of the war saw the Russia-Ukraine casualty ratio at around 2:1, Moscow’s losses have ballooned in 2026 largely in part because of Ukraine’s advancing drone attacks, accordfing to the Center for Strategic International Studies think tank.
Russia has now has 450,000 soldiers killed since the war began — a toll nine times greater than all Soviet and Russian fatalities in all wars combined since World War II, the CSIS found.
The increasing losses have been made clearer after Russia’s monthly casualty rate surpassed 30,000 per month this year, surging past Moscow’s monthly recruitment rate of 27,000, according to the study.
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