Russian average daily losses dipped throughout March, but Moscow's casualties per day have increased each year since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new assessment.
Russian losses sat at 913 a day throughout March 2024, a drop of 74 on average per day from the previous month, the British Defense Ministry said in an intelligenceupdate posted to social media on Sunday.
However, since Russian troops crossed over into Ukraine, sparking all-out war in the country, "each year has seen a rise in the daily average loss rate" for Russian troops, the U.K. government said.
The figure stood at 400 in 2022, jumping to 693 in 2023, and reaching 913 for the first three months of 2024, according to the British ministry. "The increase reflects Russia's ongoing reliance on mass to sustain pressure on Ukrainian front lines."
Ukraine's military said on Sunday that Russia had lost a total of 447,510 fighters since February 2022.
If Ukraine's tally includes overall casualties, as well as Russian fighters who are missing or died in non-combat circumstances, it is a "perfectly plausible" figure, Nick Reynolds, a research fellow for land warfare at the London-based Royal United Services Institute think tank,toldNewsweekin February.
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