How accurate are the statistics coming out of Ukraine? The Washington Post reported around the same time that a Russian news website posted a file - and then swiftly took it down again - claiming that up to 10,000 soldiers had been killed so far in the conflict.ĬBC News takes a closer look at why Russia's losses have been so high and how long they can be sustained, and the difficulty of getting accurate statistics out of a war zone. What questions do you have about Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Send an email join us live in the comments now.Īccording to a report in the New York Times in mid-March, United States intelligence officials said they were confident that up to 7,000 Russians had been killed by that point in the conflict.That higher estimate roughly equals the number of Soviet soldiers killed in over a decade of fighting in Afghanistan. NATO has estimated the number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine since the invasion began at between 7,000 and 15,000. While securing accurate fatality numbers from a war zone is very difficult, evidence is mounting that the Russian military casualty rate in Ukraine is extremely high.
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