Russia suffers over 1,015,000 casualties as Ukraine war rages on
It comes as Ukraine's army claims to have halted Russia's recent advance in the northern Sumy region
Russia has suffered 1,015,750 casualties since its war against Ukraine began in 2022, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
The figure included 1,100 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Earlier this month, a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that Russian forces “performed relatively poorly on the battlefield.”
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The report said that Russia had suffered as many as five times the number of deaths in Ukraine as in all Russian and Soviet wars combined since World War II.
The CSIS said that Russia “has paid an extraordinary blood price for seizing less than one percent of Ukrainian territory since January 2024.”
“While some policymakers and experts argue that Russia holds ‘all the cards’ in the Ukraine war, the data suggests that the Russian military has performed relatively poorly on the battlefield,” the report said.
The CSIS added that a number of factors contributed to Russian attrition during the war, including its reliance on dismounted infantry attacks to take Ukrainian territory and Ukraine’s “effective defenses and tactics.”
On Thursday, top Ukrainian military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed the Ukraine's army had "pinned down 50,000 Russian troops" and halted Russia's recent advance in the northern Sumy region.
"In certain areas, our units are liberating Ukrainian territory," he told the Kyiv Independent.
"In the North Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, we have once again pinned down about 50,000 Russian Armed Forces personnel," he added, without providing further details. Russian officials made no immediate comment on the claims.
It comes as international efforts to end the three-year conflict fail. During his presidential campaign, Trump pledged to end the war. But since taking office, he has struggled to find a resolution to the conflict.
Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met this month for direct peace talks, but aside from agreeing to swap thousands of their dead and wounded troops, they have made no progress toward ending the war.
