Russian forces have begun 2025 with another day of high losses, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.
Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Ministry of Defense to obtain an observation email.
Moscow continues to grapple with a significant number of casualties amid Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, according to updates from Ukraine, especially in the eastern component of the front where Russia is gradually advancing.
The Kremlin insists that its forces are being replenished, but such high losses may be difficult for Russia to sustain because of their military and economic effects, making them a possible factor in leverage for talks to end the war.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced on Thursday that the previous day, Russia had killed 1,370 victims, which consisted of dead and wounded.
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The estimate of Ukraine on the general Russian losses from the giant invasion at scale began on February 24, 2022 is now 792,170.
It is difficult to discover the precise number of victims of war, since kyiv estimates are superior to those of other sources, and none of the aspects regularly reveals their losses.
Russia has not updated its tally since September 2022, when it said just under 6,000 troops had died. In a rare admission, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in December that 43,000 troops fighting for Kyiv had been killed and 370,000 injuries were reported, though this included those injured more than once.
Ukraine’s New Year’s tally indicates that Russia lost 430,790 troops in 2024, a significant increase from its estimate of 253,290 last year.
Estimate a decrease in the annual account of 420,000 Russian victims, the Institute for the Study of the War of War estimated that for the 4,168 square kilometers (1,609 square miles) of Ukrainian territory that seized, Moscow made approximately 102 victims.
Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine, wrote on Telegram on December 30: “The enemy continues to bring out meat raids non-stop, suffering record losses. Over the past week, the invaders have lost about 1,700 people killed and wounded each and they wounded each one and hired each one. Every day, and in general this year, this figure is already 427,000. “
As the large-scale invasion approaches its third anniversary, there are questions about whether a peace deal or an end to hostilities is in sight.
In his New Year’s speech, Zelensky said that the United States would overcome kyiv and that the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, would be “capable of peace and finish Putin’s aggression. “
However, Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently rejected the proposals floated through Trump’s allies to finish the war, in specific the postponement of the hopes of NATO of kyiv and European forces to maintain Peace in Ukraine.
Brendan Cole is a Newsweek journalist in London in the United Kingdom. Its objective is Russia and Ukraine, in specific the war introduced through Moscow. It also covers other geopolitical spaces, adding China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 by International Business Times and, as well as in English, meets Russian and French. You can touch Brendan by sending an email to B. cole@newsweek. com or follow him in his account x @brendanmarkcole.