February 24, 2022, RRussia invades Ukraine on a large scale. Four years later, the Estimates indicate that Moscow has twice as many injured, dead and missing people as Kiev.
About to serve four years, the It is the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. It is one of the biggest signs of historical change in the world order, which has been established since the post-war period and which can also be understood through numbers.
The date now marked is not that of the war in Ukraine itself, but rather that of the anniversary ofthe large-scale invasion. The conflict had already begun in 2014, with Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the start of hostilities in the two provinces in the east, which make up the so-called Donbass, the Don River basin.
Less than a month after the said invasion on a large scale, on February 24, 2022, Russian forces reached their maximum extent conquered on March 20, 2022.
To the south and east they now added almost the entire contour of the northeast and north borders until they reached a few kilometers from the capital, Kiev.
Four years of war, with the help of Europe and the United States, Ukraine managed to repel the Russian invasion, which now controls the south and east – that is about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
But at what cost in terms of human lives?
The estimate shows that Russia has twice as many injured, dead and missing people as Ukraine.
In the case of the dead, the numbers attribute to Russia 275 to 325 thousand dead against 100 to 140 thousand Ukrainians.
In total, Russia suffered about 1 million and 200 thousand for Russia against 600 thousand for Ukraine.
The estimate of Russia’s death toll takes on new expression when compared to other wars fought by Moscow in the last half century: 14 to 16 thousand casualties in Afghanistan and 12 to 25 thousand in the two Chechen wars.
This It is by far the deadliest war for Russia since World War II.
