WarMay 16, 2026 9:18 am • 1 min readUkrainian soldiers of the 148th Artillery Brigade operate an M777 howitzer at a camouflaged position in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Sept. 4, 2025. (Patryk Jaracz / The Kyiv Independent)Russia has lost around 1,347,620 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on May 16.The number includes 1,230 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.According to the report, Russia has also lost 11,937 tanks, 24,574 armored combat vehicles, 96,793 vehicles and fuel tanks, 42,133 artillery systems, 1,788 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,381 air defense systems, 436 aircraft, 352 helicopters, 293,323 drones, 1,397 unmanned ground vehicles, 33 ships and boats, and two submarines.Ukraine's General Staff has not revealed its own losses during the full-scale invasion, citing operational secrecy.Independent Western think-tank reports agree that the Russian casualties significantly surpass Ukraine's losses, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimating the ratio to be "roughly 2.5:1 or 2:1."A January 2026 CSIS report said Ukraine has likely suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties from February 2022 to December 2025, of which between 100,000 and 140,000 are thought to be killed in action (KIA).