Advancing 30 miles at the cost of 100,000 troops: Key figures from the third year of the Russia-Ukraine war
Over the past year, the BBC-Mediazona list of named casualties has grown by 51,000, suggesting that anywhere from 78,000 to 113,000 Russian soldiers were killed in combat in 2024 alone. On the Ukrainian side, the UALosses project, which also tracks soldiers killed in action using open source data, has recorded over 70,000 confirmed fatalities and 56,000 soldiers listed as missing.