Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency, has not released data on deaths this year, according to an independent Russian outlet.

Russia is fast approaching 300,000 casualties in Ukraine, according to Kyiv's military, but Newsweek has not verified this yet. Russian soldiers walk along a street in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April ...

The rebuke from Peskov comes after the White House said Monday that the Russian military suffered around 100,000 casualties in the war since December, including more than 20,000 deaths.

Rebutting claims from some Western lawmakers that Russia holds “all the cards” in the war in Ukraine, the CSIS study used Russian casualty figures – as well as estimates of its heavy ...

The figures are unprecedented in recent Russian military history. In Afghanistan, Soviet forces lost 15,000 soldiers over a decade and 35,000 wounded.

The move comes in the face of a growing demographic crisis in Russia, which has a birth rate of just 1.42 births per woman and soaring mortality rates, according to figures from the World Bank.

But taken together, the Russian and Ukrainian casualty figures point to the terrifying intensity of fighting going on in Kursk and Ukraine's eastern regions. Western officials see no sign of this ...

Russia says nearly 500 soldiers have died in the invasion. Ukraine says the number is closer to 6,000. This is the first time Russia has released casualty figures for the ongoing conflict.

With high casualty figures and the slow pace of Russia’s territorial gains, President Vladimir V. Putin could face years more of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.

Russia will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark this summer, said the study, published Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank in Washington, DC.