Russia gained 4,000sq km of Ukraine in 2024. How many soldiers did it lose?
Russia gained 4,000sq km of Ukraine in 2024. How many soldiers did it lose?
Verifying casualty figures for soldier in the Russia-Ukraine war is difficult, as experts call it ‘a war of narratives’.
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Published on: 08/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Russia claimed to have captured Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine launched a new offensive in Russia’s Kursk, leaving residents shaken. That attritional war appears to be taking a toll on the morale of Ukrainian forces. Russian forces gained 4,168 square kilometres (1,609 square miles) of Ukrainian land in 2024. That’s twice the size of the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius. Russia gained Avdiivka, Selydove, Vuhledar, and Kurakhove, four mid-sized settlements. At least 31,481 Russian soldiers are confirmed to have died between January 1, 2024, and December 17, 2024. Mediazona uses open-source research to compile the names of Russian soldiers killed, verifying the information through obituaries, posts by relatives and other public reports. On December 8, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died in the battlefield since the beginning of the war in February 2022. The last time he had announced a death toll for Ukrainian soldiers was in February 20,24, when he said 31,000 Ukrainian troops were killed. This would mean, 12,000 Ukrainian soldiers died over about 10 months in 2024. During the Vietnam War, the US Army lost 58,220 soldiers. The impact on Russian society will be felt for years to come. Think of the human cost and then healthcare and economic cost of that.
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