How many Russians have died in the Ukraine war? - BBC News

When Russian invaded Ukraine, the BBC and its partners began painstakingly verifying and counting as many deaths as possible.

We identified more than 25,000 named individuals - people we know to have died - setting a bare minimum for Russia's total losses.

The count provides hard evidence of the war's impact on Russian forces. But it has also given answers to grieving families. Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them.

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[troublej]

For anyone wondering these are only confirmed deaths not an estimation

[gen]

everyone talks about russian losses but not ukrainian losses. because once we talk about ukrainian losses, morale drops everywhere

[jayrob]

How many Ukrainian soldiers have died? A good neutral unbiased report on those deaths as well would be useful.

[TimesFM]

It took 15, 000 deaths to force Soviets out of Afghanistan. I imagine it far higher then 25, 000

[Bigstory]

This war needs to stop as soon as possible For the innocent people on both sides

[virtual]

This is not deaths. It's the number of graves you have found.

[vietnamesebeauties]

Regardless if the dead soldiers are from Ukraine 🇺🇦 or from Russia 🇷🇺 they all have fathers & mothers whom crying for their death. Hope peace 🕊️ would come soon to the land of Ukraine 🇺🇦 🙏🙏

[mymainecoons]

The number of confirmed losses will rise during reconstruction when the bodies of abandoned Russian soldiers are found. There are a few groups trying to recover bodies regardless of nationality but its a dangerous task during the active conflict.

[DilAbadyi]

It's heartbreaking to see that mother crying for her son, no one should sacrifice themselves in these nonsense war😥

[siyandafata]

This is a big war casualties are expected

[markmallinder]

25K only? No wonder I cancelled my TV license!

[jeffreyburris]

So many Mothers, Brothers, Sisters and Fathers who will never see their loved ones again.

[eh]

These are only the graves of soldiers whose bodies were (1) retrieved (2) transported home, and (3) whose deaths or burials were publicly announced — i.e. by family in local papers.

[jakeman]

Sadly your son did in fact die for nothing.

[megandolimpio]

20 no 50 no 100 million!!
200, 400 million!!! The lies never end

[excellencechiropraticgoa]

Stop this war from both side and pramote peace❤

[ohyeh]

How many, i think this needs correcting, 25000 in Bakhmut alone.

[malenotyalc]

Not to mention 900, 000 military age men have left Russia. That alone is going to crush Russia's economy for the next 30 years.

[Prinkey]

25, 000?! BBC where are you getting your information from? lmao

[bojanm]

"There is a risk of NATO becoming envolve in a war." 😅 Common BBC...😂