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The General Staff of the Ukrainian army says that Russia has lost 784,200 soldiers since the start of the war in Ukraine. He detailed the Russian material losses which turned out to be very significant. 2025 promises to be a pivotal year for the conflict.
How many Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have died in combat since the start of the war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022? Difficult if not impossible to have an independent figure. The only known figures come from Russians and Ukrainians.
Russia would have lost 784,200 soldiers in Ukraine according to the start of the conflict. The figure was announced by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Saturday, December 28, on its Facebook page. This figure includes killed and wounded soldiers. On December 8, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 198,000 Russian soldiers were dead and 550,000 wounded.
And unfortunately it’s not over. In 2025, the million Russian soldiers killed or wounded will be exceeded, says Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze in an interview with The Kyiv Independent.
The Ukrainian army detailed the material losses of the Russian enemy and they are very significant:
- 9651 chars
- 19,970 armored combat vehicles
- 32,328 vehicles and fuel tanks
- 21,408 artillery systems
- 1256 multiple rocket launcher systems
- 1032 air defense systems
- 369 planes
- 329 helicopters
- 21 013 drones
- 28 ships and boats
- 1 submarine
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On the Ukrainian side this time, Volodymyr Zelensky recently declared that the conflict with Russia had cost the lives of 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers and that 370,000 were injured. Figures disputed by the Kremlin, which assures that Ukrainian losses are “several times higher” than Russian losses. Again, it is impossible to verify the figures independently.
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On November 30, Volodymyr Zelensly proposed that the war could end when unoccupied Ukraine was placed under the aegis of NATO. Ukraine could then try to negotiate the return of territories under Russian control “diplomatically,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview. With Donald Trump coming to power in the United States on January 20, 2025 is shaping up to be a crucial year for the war in Ukraine.
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