Leaked Data Exposes Catastrophic Russian Army Losses: Over 280,000 Casualties in Just Eight Months

For the first time, internal Russian figures on military losses in 2025 have surfaced, published by the Ukrainian project “I Want to Live ,” revealing devastating personnel and equipment losses that Moscow has tried to conceal on October 6.

According to the leaked data, in the first 243 days of 2025, Russia lost 281,550 soldiers killed, wounded, missing, or captured.

Of those, 86,744 were killed, including 1,583 officers and 8,633 prisoners recruited from penal colonies. 33,966 are missing, among them 11,427 convicts.

158,529 wounded, including 6,356 officers and 16,489 prisoners, and 2,311 captured by the Ukrainain forces.

In addition to the human toll, the Russian military reportedly lost 13,145 pieces of equipment beyond repair and 48,458 units damaged but salvageable. On average, that amounts to 35,193 personnel and 7,700 pieces of equipment lost each month, with 1,643 destroyed irrecoverably.

Military analysts note that the losses rival some of the bloodiest battles of World War II. During the Soviet Union’s East Prussian Offensive, for example, Moscow sacrificed 126,000 soldiers—but in return seized northern Poland and East Prussia, including Königsberg.

In contrast, the I Want to Live project emphasized that Russia’s generals have lost more than 120,000 troops in 2025 without being able to take a single Ukrainian city like Pokrovsk.

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The Ukrainian General Staff estimates the number may be even higher—around 292,000 Russian losses in the same period.

A striking ratio underscores the lack of battlefield medical support: for every Russian soldier killed, only 1.3 are recorded as wounded. Typically, modern armies see much higher survival rates.

Analysts say this reflects Russia’s failure to evacuate or treat its wounded, many of whom are abandoned after being hit.

The leaked figures also highlight which Russian units have been bled dry:

• the “Center” grouping, including the 2nd and 51st Combined Arms Armies, suffered catastrophic losses. The 2nd Army under Ramil Ibatullin, with its notorious “meat grinder” brigades—the 27th Motor Rifle Division and the 15th and 30th Brigades—lost 15,310 killed and 16,260 wounded;

• the 51st Army’s losses were similar: 13,000 killed, 14,201 wounded, and the highest equipment losses—1,642 units destroyed;

• the 1st Tank Army of the “West” grouping lost nearly 10,000 killed and over 11,400 wounded;

• even Russia’s elite airborne troops (VDV), usually spared the worst combat, lost 2,272 killed or missing and 3,191 wounded.

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The project noted that the Kremlin continues to hide the true toll. “The only time the Russian Ministry of Defense publicly reported casualties was on March 25, 2022—and even then, the numbers were drastically understated,” the report states.

Ultimately, the leak warns Russians to brace for the grim reckoning that may come once the war ends: the true number of killed, missing, and wounded since February 2022 far exceeds one million people.

Earlier, Russia’s Ministry of Defense began auctioning off dozens of destroyed tanks and armored vehicles as scrap metal.

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