Overview
- A CSIS assessment reports roughly 1.2 million Russian troops killed or wounded since 2022, including about 325,000 dead.
- Ukraine’s General Staff now cites a cumulative 1,238,710 Russian casualties and reports heavy clashes centered on the Pokrowsk sector.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitrij Peskow rejects the CSIS numbers and says only the Defense Ministry may release Russian loss figures.
- Independent projects such as the BBC/Mediazona count have verified 165,661 Russian deaths, with researchers stressing significant undercounting.
- Ukraine received the remains of 1,000 of its soldiers in an ICRC-mediated exchange, with Russia receiving 38 bodies under prior Istanbul agreements.