The titanic effort of the Defense Forces and the entire Ukrainian people is leading to unprecedented results on the front, where behind every unit recorded in the casualty statistics stands a specific occupier who came with a weapon onto Ukrainian soil. On September 9, 2026, the total number of killed and wounded in the ranks of the Russian army since the beginning of the full-scale invasion crossed the threshold of 1,500,000 people.
This figure represents the heaviest losses for Russian forces in any military conflict since World War II. In scale, the number surpasses the combined casualties of the Soviet and Russian armies in all armed conflicts in the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century taken together.
A comparison with past conflicts highlights the monstrous scale of these data:
- 100 times more than the USSR's losses in Afghanistan over 10 years;
- 125 times more than the aggressor's officially acknowledged losses in the First and Second Chechen Wars.