General Staff: Russia has lost 568,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
General Staff: Russia has lost 568,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
This number includes 1,220 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
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Estimates vary, and that's the ceiling, given by the Ukrainians. The US estimates about half of that, the BBC estimates about a fifth of that. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Still a staggering number of people whose lives were wasted for Putin's vanity.
The BBC number cited in that article is for 100k deaths not casualties, which for 4:1 injured to killed ratio would tally with the Ukrainian number.
And a recent report identified 60.000 Russian soldiers that had been killed. If the number of identifiable bodies alone is that high, the Ukrainian numbers are most likely credible.
Remember as well that modern small arms rounds are built to inflict serious injury if they don't kill you outright - it takes more personnel to evac and care for a wounded soldier (unless you're doing what Russia is ALLEGEDLY doing and just killing soldiers too injured to fight).
Russia is sending injured soldiers to fight. As evidenced by the appeal videos asking to prevent the practice.
UK intelligence has been more conservative in their figures but not by a significant amount. They often report a milestone within days or a fortnight of Ukraine.