How Russia’s fatalities compare with Ukraine’s
After four years of fighting, our modelling reveals a grim toll
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S “special military operation” in Ukraine was meant to last days. Four years on, it has cost Russia dearly and delivered little. The latest casualty estimates—from official and independent sources, as well as The Economist’s own modelling—suggest that Russia is losing far more troops than Ukraine, while gaining almost no ground.
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