The confirmed losses of the army of the aggressor country russia during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine exceeded 160,000 people killed. This is only a part of the real number of russians killed in the war, as not all information becomes public.
This is the subject of an investigation by Mediazona, the BBC russian Service and a team of volunteers.
According to the journalists' investigation, as of January 15, the number of people killed in the war in Ukraine amounted to 163,606. At the same time, from December 18 to January 15, this figure increased by almost 7,500 people.
The Republic of Bashkortostan has the highest number of deaths - 8178 people. This is followed by the Republic of Tatarstan (7193 killed) and the Moscow Oblast (4878 killed)
Russian army losses. Photo by Mediazona
Most of the deaths occurred among volunteers (33%), prisoners who went to war in exchange for amnesty (12%) and mobilized (10.1%).
Russian army losses. Photo by Mediazona
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on January 13, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that every month the russian army loses 20,000-25,000 people in Ukraine.
On January 13, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that the losses of the russian army in 2025 made up 418,000 people. We are talking about both irreversible and sanitary losses of the occupiers.
We also wrote that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 19 generals of the russian army have been killed.
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