1.2 million Russian soldiers and nearly 600,000 Ukrainians have fallen victim to the war in Ukraine, according to data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
According to the American think tank, 1.2 million Russian soldiers were wounded, killed or missing from February 2022 to December 2025, with 325,000 of them losing their lives.
By spring, the casualties will be over 2 million
Since the start of the full-scale aggression against its territory, Ukraine has lost between 100 and 140,000 soldiers, and the total number of injured, dead and missing is between 500 and 600,000, according to data from the organization, which is based in Washington. "The total number of victims in Russia and Ukraine has probably reached 1.8 million, and by the spring of 2026 it could reach two million", CSIS also reports.
Recently, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reported that the number of civilians killed in the war has already reached 15,000. Their number is probably even higher, because international observers have difficulty obtaining information from the territories occupied by Russia.
Russia is making extremely slow progress
As the "New York Times" points out, against the backdrop of the large number of victims, Russia's progress in Ukraine has been extremely slow. From January 2024 to December 2025, the Russian army managed to capture about 1.5% of the territory of Ukraine. It still controls about a fifth of the country it has invaded.
Despite the heavy losses, Russia has maintained its troop strength, having mobilized for the first time since World War II, including from among prisoners. It is also believed that about 15,000 North Korean soldiers have also joined the fighting, mostly in the western Russian Kursk region, where Ukrainians seized territory in 2024. Hundreds of them have lost their lives.
Negotiations in Abu Dhabi continue
The war in Ukraine has been going on for nearly four years. Donald Trump returned to power in the United States with the promise of ending it, but so far his efforts have seemed fruitless.
This weekend, delegations from Moscow, Kiev and Washington began talks in the United Arab Emirates for the first time. Although both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US special envoy Steve Witkoff described the talks as "constructive", Russia is still insisting that Ukraine hand over all of Donbas, including the parts not under Russian control - a condition that Kiev has categorically rejected. The next round of talks will be held on February 1.