Russia suffered “record” high military casualties in 2024, claims Kyiv
- 20 January, 09:38
Russia’s battlefield casualties hit record high of 434,000, including approximately 150,000 killed in 2024, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Sunday.
“This year of combat has cost them more than the previous two years of the war combined,” Syrskyi told a local TV channel TSN on January 19. When asked about Ukraine’s military losses in the war, Syrskyi said there were “many times” less Ukrainian losses compared to Russia’s casualties.
Overall, Russia lost a total of 818,740 troops since the start of full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in February 2024, the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces reported separately on the same day, adding that the number includes 1,580 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day. Russian losses reached record highs in November and December, with a daily high of 2,030 troops lost in November, marking the highest daily loss since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
Kremlin has not disclosed its military losses since the start of the war, however the figure announced by Ukraine in in line with Western estimates. Last month, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy revealed that Ukraine had lost 43,000 soldiers on the battlefield since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
It should be noted that Russia has gained grounds in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region over the past year, however at the expensive of heavy casualties.
