Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, at least 19 Russian generals have been killed, according to data from open sources. Not all deaths have been officially confirmed by the Kremlin, TASR writes, according to the Russian investigative portal The Insider and The Moscow Times website.
In the first months of the war, several generals were killed by snipers or fell due to artillery attacks. The first confirmed victim was the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Army, Major General Andrej Suchovecký, who was shot by a sniper on February 28, 2022 in the Chernihiv region.
Among the victims are the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection units, Igor Kirillov, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff Jaroslav Moskalik and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Michail Gudkov. Chief of the Directorate of Operational Training of the General Staff Fanila Sarvarova was killed by a car bomb explosion on December 22, 2025 in Moscow.
Some of those killed were serving as part of Wagner’s group or the Defense Department’s “Storm Z” mercenary unit, made up of prisoners. The total number of Russian soldiers killed or wounded may approach 1.15 million, a senior NATO representative told the Russian BBC editorial office at the beginning of December.
Independent news website Mediazona previously reported based on data from open sources confirmed number of deaths of Russian soldiers since the beginning of the invasion 152,142. Most of the victims came from the autonomous republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and the Sverdlovsk region. Approximately 67 percent were from rural areas and cities with up to 100,000 inhabitants.
The lower estimate of the total death toll for 2025 is 100,000 and will inevitably increase as information is confirmed and new obituaries are published. The total number of victims as of February 2022 is estimated at 190,000 to 480,000. According to an estimate by The Economist magazine, by the end of autumn 2025, Russia will have lost approximately one percent of its male population as a result of the war in Ukraine.
In 2025, according to the Ukrainian mapping project DeepState, Russian armed forces occupied more than 4,300 square kilometers of territory with the loss of more than 100,000 people. According to The Insider’s calculations, the conquest of one square kilometer cost the Kremlin up to 20 dead.
