Overview
- The Ukrainian General Staff says Russia has suffered about 1,214,500 total losses since February 2022, including roughly 1,040 in the past 24 hours, figures that cannot be independently verified.
- BBC Russian service and Mediazona have confirmed by name more than 156,000 fallen Russian soldiers, and experts cited by the BBC estimate this method captures only 45–65% of actual fatalities.
- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently estimated Russian dead and wounded exceed 1.1 million, while British intelligence reported a peak loss rate of about 1,570 per day in December 2024.
- Moscow has released an official toll only once, stating 5,937 dead in September 2022, underscoring the large gaps between official and independent counts.
- Parallel to the fighting, Paris talks on security guarantees moved forward with a France–UK–Ukraine declaration on potential foreign troop support, but disputes over territory remain unresolved and a formal Kremlin response was not yet issued.