UK intelligence: Russia has lost 900,000 soldiers since 2022

UK intelligence has analysed the number of Russian forces’ losses since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Source: UK Ministry of Defence on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Details: UK intelligence noted that the Russian armed forces have most likely lost over 900,000 soldiers killed or injured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Of these, between 200,000 and 250,000 Russian soldiers are likely to have been killed, which is Russia's biggest loss since World War II, UK intelligence said.

The UK suggested that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and Russian military leadership are likely to prioritise their war goals over Russian soldiers' lives.

Quote: "They are almost certainly prepared to tolerate continuously high casualty rates so long as this does not negatively affect public or elite support for the war, and those losses can be replaced." 

Details: UK intelligence stressed that Putin and the Russian leadership are likely to place much less value on the lives of "ethnic minority Russian citizens from impoverished regions, with Russian recruitment efforts consequently focussed disproportionately on these areas".

The analysis stressed that Russians from large cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg have drafted "have contributed disproportionately fewer service personnel than their poorer, ethnic minority compatriots".

Background:

• Recently, a UK intelligence analysis stated that since the beginning of 2025, the Russians’ losses in Ukraine have amounted to 90,000 soldiers killed and wounded.
• UK intelligence also analysed the state of the Russian army as of the third year of the full-scale war against Ukraine and described its losses.
• In addition, intelligence officers wrote that Russia is forcibly issuing its passports in the occupied territories, which are also the basis for conscription into the Russian army.

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