Russia has sacrificed the lives of 400,000 soldiers to capture 1% of Ukraine’s territory.

The war against Ukraine costs Russia an enormously high price, resulting in its greatest military losses since World War II. Since the beginning of 2024, the Russians have managed to take control of only 4,731 square kilometers, less than 1% of Ukraine’s territory, and Russian casualities have exceeded 400,000 killed and wounded. Thus, for every square kilometer of captured territory, the occupiers paid with the lives of 84 of its soldiers. According to IISS, Russia lost 172,000 soldiers in military action.

In total, Russia has involved almost a million people in combat operations. A total of 976,000 servicemen have been sent to the front, and every third person was seriously injured – that amounts to 376,000 individuals.

As of May, the Russian army controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory, but nearly all of these gains were made in the first weeks of the invasion. The aggressor state holds almost the entire Luhansk region, as well as up to 70% of the Donetsk region, and parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the start of the full-scale invasion Russian casualties have surpassed 970,000.