Total casualties in Vladimir Putin’s four-year war in Ukraine are nearing two million people.<\/p>\n
It’s difficult to put precise numbers on those killed, wounded or reported missing, however, as both sides tend not to report their own casualties.<\/p>\n
Here is what we know about the victims on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion:<\/p>\n
Russian troops:\u00a0The Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a US thinktank, estimated last month that Russia had suffered 1.2 million casualties by the end of December, including troops wounded and missing and 325,000 who have been killed.<\/p>\n
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces gave an update on that figure yesterday, saying it had risen to 1,261,420 casualties.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian troops:\u00a0The CSIS estimates Ukraine has suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties, including between 100,00 and 140,000 deaths.<\/p>\n
Combined Russian-Ukrainian casualties could reach two million by this spring, the CSIS said.<\/p>\n
Civilians:\u00a0The United Nations’ Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) verified 15,172 civilian deaths by mid-February.<\/p>\n
They occurred in 26 of Ukraine’s 27 administrative regions and overwhelmingly in territory controlled by the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n
Some 41,378 civilians have been injured, it adds, bringing the number of casualties to 56,550.<\/p>\n
Children:\u00a0Among the dead civilians were notably 766 children,\u00a0while 2,540 have been injured, according to the HRMMU. It says those figures are almost certainly undercounted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Ukrainian government, Moscow also abducted at least 20,000 Ukrainian children and brought them to Russian-controlled territory, where they were forcibly adopted into Russian families. Only 2,000 have been returned to date, Kyiv says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Total casualties in Vladimir Putin’s four-year war in Ukraine are nearing two million people. It’s difficult to put…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-487409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}