The ukrainian war It has become an armed conflict of attrition that has already lasted four years. Every month, Both the Russians lose thousands of soldiers that must be replaced with new ones.
However, as time progresses, on the front it becomes more and more complicated. Good proof of this is that The growth of the Russian army has stagnated in the last six months.
This is what they say from the Ukrainian media. where they highlight that for the first time since February 2022 (when the Ukrainian war started) The number of Russian fighters on Ukrainian territory has stopped increasing.
Specifically, according to the figures of the Ukrainian command, during the last half year The number of Russian military personnel in Ukraine has remained between 711,000 and 712,000including operating reserves.
One of the main reasons that explain this stagnation is that the number of casualties of the country presided over by Vladimir Putin is so high that recruitment is no longer sufficient to increase the Russian presence in Ukraine.
In that sense, since Euromaidan Press they detail that “Russian losses in January 2026 reached 31,700 dead and woundedclose to the monthly replenishment rate. In December 2025, the then head of Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, reported that “Moscow had been recruiting an average of 34,083 people per month in 2025.”
Russia, without soldiers for a summer offensive
These six months with hardly any growth in the number of Russian soldiers in Ukraine has caused, according to a recent, Moscow may not have enough reserves to carry out a major offensive in the summer of 2026.
Russia has suffered a large number of casualties (between dead, wounded and missing) throughout these four years of war in Ukraine. According to them, the figure is almost 1.2 million.
