Overview

• Deputy defense minister Anna Tsivilyova told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that wartime injuries have driven “huge breakthroughs,” claiming Russia now provides unmatched prosthetic services.
• An analysis of labor ministry data by Takie Dela found 152,500 artificial limbs were issued in 2024, a 53% increase from the prior year.
• Moscow keeps casualty figures classified, while Western assessments estimate total Russian dead and wounded since 2022 at around or above one million.
• Tsivilyova said authorities received 48,000 DNA requests from relatives seeking to trace soldiers who are dead or missing.
• Independent Russian outlets report monthslong waits and other shortfalls in prosthetic provision despite official assertions of rapid progress.