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Number of casualties or missing soldiers on both sides of Russia’s war in Ukraine May reach 2 million A report warns that by spring Russia will have the highest death toll in conflicts of any major power since World War II.
Research from the Center for Strategic and International Studies shows Conflict is slow and deadlyand comes ahead of the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties between February 2022 and December 2025, including as many as 325,000 dead soldiers, the report said. “Since World War II, no major country has suffered such a high number of casualties in any war.” The author said.
Estimates of Ukraine’s smaller army and population ranged from 500,000 to 600,000 casualties, including as many as 140,000 deaths.
Russia says the figures are unreliable because its advances in Ukraine remain locked in a brutal war of attrition. Analysts say Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no hurry to find a solution despite the difficulties Russian troops are facing along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front.
Putin has repeatedly stated that unless Kiev gives up in the peace agreement, Russia will seize Ukraine’s entire Donbas region by force, and Moscow’s army controls 90% of the land in the region.
This weekend, the two countries will hold a third round of talks brokered by the United States aimed at ending the war.
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio said active efforts are being made to reconcile Donetsk’s territorial issues in Donbass, describing the disagreement as a key remaining issue that is “very difficult” to resolve.
Kiev said it would not give away territory to Russia that Moscow failed to win on the battlefield.
“It’s still a bridge that we have to cross,” Rubio said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “It’s still a gap, but at least we’ve been able to narrow it down to a core issue, which could be a very difficult issue.”
Wednesday in Ukraine, Russia strike Killed a couple near Kiev and carried out hammering southern city odessaone day after the drone attack Five people died on the passenger train.
president Vladimir Zelensky condemned the attack. “The attack hit a residential area without any military targets nearby,” the Ukrainian leader wrote on social media. “We will respond fairly. Russia for this and other similar attacks. “
Several buildings were damaged in the attack in Odessa, but no casualties were reported. Emergency crews are putting out a blaze after multiple fires broke out at one of the city’s architecture schools.
Emergency services said religious sites, including a monastery, were damaged in the blast.
Energy infrastructure continued to be targeted, with Deputy Prime Minister Oleksi Kuleba saying strikes had damaged manufacturing facilities, locomotives and hangars and sparked fires that were being put out.
Hundreds of thousands of residents have been without power amid a relentless assault on infrastructure during one of the country’s coldest winters on record.
UkraineThe Black Sea port of Pivdeni came under attack but continued normal operations, the seaports authority said.
The attack injured three people and damaged port infrastructure, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram on Wednesday. A residential building and buildings near an Orthodox monastery were also damaged, he added.