More than the US lost in Vietnam and Korea: how many Ukrainians were killed during the war - Economist

In November, the Wall Street Journal, with reference to Western intelligence services, was reported that up to 200,000 Russian soldiers were killed. The Economist writes about it. According to the estimates of the British edition, published in July 2024, as of June 21, 106,000 - 140,000 Russian soldiers were killed. It is more difficult to calculate Ukraine's losses, in many respects because Western allies are in no hurry to disclose their grades.

In order to calculate the losses of Ukraine from the beginning of a full -scale invasion in February 2022, journalists gathered data on the battle dead on the battlefield, which appeared through the origins or publications of intelligence services, officials, researchers and open intelligence. These calculations are difficult to verify independently. The dead or missing soldiers are not always taken into account in such estimates.

At the same time, these data make an idea of ​​the approximate number of dead. "They suggest that at least 60-100 thousand Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far. More than 400,000 have been so strong injuries that they could no longer participate in the battles. These data are not taken into account - There is little information. Ulosses statistics say that at least 60 435 soldiers have been killed in 2022.

Unlike other sources, Ulosses leads a catalog of names and age categories of the dead, which allows to calculate losses by age groups and the percentage of the male population. (Although some Ukrainian women also serve on the front line, the vast majority of fighters are men). These figures say that 0. 5% of the pre-war male population of Ukraine aged 18-49 was killed. These are incomplete data, and not all age -related data are known.

The real proportion of Ukrainian men who died in the war is higher. The number of those who received serious injuries and cannot continue to fight is even higher. Each killed soldier has 6-8 seriously wounded, which can no longer participate in battles. Almost every 20 men of mobilization age is dead or injured who do not allow them to fight. The losses of each party - both Ukraine and the Russian Federation - are already exceeding the losses of America in the Vietnamese and Korean wars combined.

The number of combat loss is approaching America's losses in World War II. The losses of Russia in Ukraine since 2022, without taking into account the dead of foreign mercenaries she recruited, has been overshadowed by the losses in all its wars since 1945. In September, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called the WSJ data on 80,000 losses of the Armed Forces on the front line. "The real figure is much smaller than the one that was published. Much," the head of state assured on September 20.