Russian forces have begun the year 2025 as they ended 2024, with another day of great losses in their ranks, as revealed by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Thus, Moscow continues to face a significant number of victims amidst the Russian president’s large-scale invasion, according to daily updates from Ukraine, especially in the eastern part of the front where Russia is making gradual advances.
The Kremlin insists that its forces they are replenishingbut such high losses they can be difficult to bear for Russia due to their military and economic effects, making them a potential pressure factor for negotiations to end the war.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reported that on January 1 its invader, Russia, had 1,370 casualtiesbetween dead and injured personnel. The ministry announced the losses on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, and cited science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in the publication to issue a warning to sailors: “The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them towards the impossible”.
Ukraine’s estimate of total russian losses since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022 is now 792,170.
Actually, It is difficult to determine the exact number of casualties in war, as kyiv’s estimates are usually higher than those from other sources and neither side usually discloses its losses.
Russia has not updated its count since September 2022when he said they had died just under 6,000 soldiers. In a rare admission, the Ukrainian president, , said in December that they had died 43,000 soldiers fighting for kyiv and 370,000 injuries had been reportedalthough this included those wounded more than once.
Ukraine’s New Year’s Day tally said Russia had lost 430,790 troops in 2024, and significant increase from its estimate of 253,290 for the previous year.
Assessing a lower annual count of 420,000 Russian losses, (Washington-based ISW) He estimated that for each of the 4,168 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory it had taken, Moscow had around 102 casualties..
On December 30, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi wrote on Telegram: “The enemy continues to carry out continuous heavy artillery attacks, suffering record losses. Thus, in the last week, the invaders have lost around 1,700 people dead or injured every day, and in total this year this figure is already 427,000.”
As the large-scale invasion is approaching its third anniversary, expectation grows as to whether a peace agreement or the end of hostilities. In his New Year’s speech, Zelensky said that the United States would support kyiv and that incoming president Donald Trump would would be “able to achieve peace and put an end to Putin’s aggression”.
However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently rejected proposals launched by Trump’s allies to end the war, including postponing kyiv’s hopes of joining NATO and stationing European peacekeepers in Ukraine.
