The ukrainian war It’s approaching four years since . While the war continues, peace seems to come and go at timeswith the mediation of the US (and Donald Trump) as the main axis between Ukraine and Russia.
But on the brink of the fourth anniversary of the war and despite recent achievements on the front line, Russia is facing a very difficult situation due to countless human and material losses.
And confirmed the identity of nearly 155,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. But new information from this joint work of the two media now details that Russia is suffering its highest number of casualties since the beginning of the invasion.
As the British public media and the Russian independent media have been able to verify, in 2025 up to 40% more obituaries were published in Russia than in 2024.
Research in both media has been nourished by official reports, social networks and newspaper informationas well as inscriptions on monuments and tombs installed in the last year.
In their report they have been able to date and detail the identities of around 160,000 Russian soldiers dead since the beginning of the war in February 2022. However, those responsible for the investigation themselves point out that the figure is much lower than the ‘real’ figure.
In fact, the figure would mean between 45% and 65% of total Russian casualties in these four years, so the calculation would rise to between 243,000 and 352,000 soldiers dead.
Among the data of the BBC and Mediazona highlights what happened in August. During the month in which Vladimir Putin met with Donald Trump in Alaska, the number of obituaries published in Russia grew significantly. The highest figure was obtained in October 2025, with 12,035 confirmed deaths, when throughout the previous year the figure did not exceed 7,155 per month.
