Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-death-toll.html
Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-death-toll.html
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wdym lost them?… they couldn’t have gone far…maybe Italy?
What an absolutely insane statistic.
And yet they are currently celebrating “Victory” day.
I hate making everything about America but it helps put it in context for me as an American. The US lost 405,000 soldiers in World War 2. In a few months, this would likely pass that and would be the second deadliest war in US history. This is just like a side quest of death for Russians.
and already 2k north Koreans, thousands of Africans and a few more Indians(conscripted or misguided, not throwing shades at Indians or Africans)
All young men, what a senseless loss
It’s actually sad that we people have to die all the time because some old guys want to fulfill some shitty ambitions
Would be interesting to get an estimate of how Russia’s military production has also been degraded by sanctions and drone attacks, prognosis for the future.
Have the checked under the cushions on the sofa?
350K fewer soldiers potentially invading Europe.
Lost in a war for ego and not self defence.
Hoping for 400k soon 🙏
Remember when they said Russia wouldn’t bat an eye about losses until it reached 500,000 dead? War is fucking crazy. That’s 350 thousand young men sent to die for no good reason.
Regardless your position on this situation, or any other war or conflict, it’s the young men that pay the price. So many lives …it’s hard to wrap your head around.
Holy shit that is a looot of soldiers wtf
Maybe they should retrace their steps and find them.
the things you can get away with in a dictatorship. I can’t believe someone in the Russian military hasn’t bumped off Putin yet.
It’s only 1/400th of Russia’s population. That’s not enough to affect anything inside of the Russian hellscape.
That’s it?
I would bet dollars to donuts the kia is over half a million.
All for one person’s ego
Russia and human wave tactics, a classic combination.
Is this 350k unaccounted for lost? Bc the # of killed/severely wounded is over a million
Such needless waste of life.
Let’s hope they aren’t found! Ukraine could use some good news.
I always correlate this sort of thing with a stadium we have here in Australia, the MCG.
Capacity is just over 100k. I’ve been to a few sold out games and seen what 100k people looks like right in front of you.
Trying to imagine that amount of people, multiplied by 3.5.. just dead! Is fucking insane.
What a waste.
Lordddd
Russian Military personnel — aprx. 1340270 people (+1080)
https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties/
It must be far more than that…I have seen more Russians than I care to count that have been ripped apart by drones…They just need to go the fuck home man…
Idk that seems like a crazy high number. Can’t really cover that up
thought it would be far more.
Imagine.. those people had lives, loved ones, dreams, children, spouses…
Sad that in this age of “civilization” we common citizens are still sent to die in other peoples wars.
They lost 15k over 10 years in Afghanistan. Now they are losing an Afghan wars worth of men every 2 months. That’s insane. I feel like Russia is barely hanging on and when everything goes down it’s gonna happen fast. Like things will keep chugging along as they have been but one day we’re gonna wake up and it’s gonna be like the fall of the USSR all over again. Except this time it will be bloody.
add a million to that and you’re closer to the real numbers.
So probably way higher than that.
It’s waaaay higher than that too.
I think that figure is off. I think many more Russians died during the war .