But if only the military is killed by Russia, then Ukraine loses a large number of civilians, as well as socio-economic infrastructure.

Svaboda has gathered information on how the parties assess the losses - their own and the enemy's.

Losses of manpower

Both Ukraine and Russia are more likely to report other people's losses than their own.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was the first to publish such summaries.

And this has become one of the most important elements of information warfare.

The parties report their own losses infrequently.

But both Russian and Ukrainian figures are difficult to verify.

According to military experts, the greater side usually has greater military losses.

The defending side has less losses because it has positional advantages.

On April 16, Ukraine acknowledged that 2,500-3,000 servicemen had been killed and 10,000 wounded in the fighting.

These figures are comparable to published figures of American intelligence.

The Russian Ministry of Defense estimates that 23,367 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.

In late March, Russia acknowledged the deaths of 1,351 of its troops, another 3,825 were wounded.

According to Ukrainian reports, the Russian army has already lost more than 20,800 troops.

According to US estimates at the end of March 2022, Russia lost about 10,000 troops.

Losses of military equipment

According to the Ukrainian side, on April 19 Russia lost:

802 tanks

  • 2,063 armored combat vehicles

  • 386 artillery systems

  • 132 volley fire missile systems

  • 67 air defenses

  • 169 aircraft

  • 150 helicopters

  • 1495 cars

  • 8 ships and boats

  • 76 fuel tanks

  • 158 drones

  • 27 units of special equipment

  • 4 operational tactical missile systems

The Russian side focuses on the destruction of equipment and military bases in Ukraine.

According to Moscow, on April 19, Ukraine lost:

2353 tanks and other combat armored vehicles

  • 252 anti-aircraft missile systems

  • 256 installations of multiple rocket launchers

  • 1014 units of field artillery and mortars

  • 2208 units of special military vehicles

  • 140 aircraft

  • 487 drones

Reference:

According to available statistics, Russia in 2014 produced 124 military aircraft and more than 300 helicopters, but in 2019 production fell by more than 40%.

Aircraft have not been produced in Ukraine since 2016.

In December 2020, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the state enterprise "Antonov" signed a memorandum of cooperation in the construction of aircraft for the army.

It was planned that the first of the three military transport aircraft An-178 the army will receive in 2023.

At the beginning of the war, the state enterprise "Antonov" became one of the first targets of bombing by Russian troops.

Deaths of children and civilians

Ukraine additionally loses a lot of human potential, as Russia often chooses social facilities as objects of air and artillery shelling.

The shelling of the maternity hospital in Mariupol and the railway station in Kramatorsk were the most resonant.

Ukraine estimates the death toll at 2734-3000 civilians.

But government officials say the figures are preliminary, as the death toll in cities still under Russian occupation remains unknown.

The same applies to the number of injured children - 205 died and 367 were injured.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2,072 people have died in Ukraine since February 24, including 169 children, and 2,818 injured.

But the commissariat also stressed that in reality the number of victims of the Russian war in Ukraine may be significantly higher, because they receive verified information late.

Economic losses

According to the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, only in the transport sector destroyed up to 30% of infrastructure totaling more than $ 100 billion.

Hundreds of educational, medical and cultural institutions were destroyed.

The head of government Denis Shmygal said that the direct losses of the Ukrainian economy from the war have already amounted to more than 560 billion dollars - estimates of the destruction of infrastructure and housing, as well as business downtime and the destruction of logistics chains.

In the long run from the destruction of production capacity and the destruction of infrastructure, the amount of losses will significantly exceed $ 1 trillion.

In only one now destroyed Mariupol, which was a major center of Ukrainian metallurgy, a major seaport and one of the most comfortable cities to live in Ukraine, Ukraine is losing almost a quarter of its economy.

Russia's war against Ukraine

  • At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

    He said Russia did not plan to occupy Ukrainian lands, and called on the Ukrainian military to lay down its arms and "go home."

  • Earlier, on February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

    On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

  • On the first day of the war, the Russians captured Snake Island, where they captured 13 Ukrainian border guards.

    Then they were exchanged for Russian prisoners.

  • All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

    For more than a month of active hostilities, Russia has managed to partially control only Kherson, Melitopol, Energodar and surround Mariupol, the latter is almost completely destroyed, the city is abducting journalists.

    At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was seized by the Russians, only 600 hours of work allowed the rotation of personnel, and on March 31, the Russians began to withdraw from Chernobyl.

  • On February 10, Belarusian-Russian maneuvers began near the Ukrainian border, ending with Russian troops remaining in Belarus, contrary to Moscow's earlier promises, and attacking Ukraine from the north using Belarusian airfields, bases and roads.

    Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

  • On February 27, the illegitimate leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, admitted that rockets had been launched from the territory of Ukraine.

    On the same day, in a telephone conversation with Vladimir Zelensky, Lukashenko promised that there would be no attacks from Belarusian territory, but after it, missiles flew from Belarus to Ukraine again.

  • On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

    Belarusians, in particular the White Legion, also joined it.

    As of March 31, three Belarusians were killed, including volunteers, one with the call sign Litvin, the other Dmitry Apanasovich, and Tour, who served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

  • On March 20, 11 pro-Russian political movements and parties were banned in Ukraine.

  • On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

    It includes people who have worked in conflict resolution in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

    The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

  • The number of refugees from Ukraine has exceeded 4 million people.

    According to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova, about 400,000 Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia during the war.

    In particular, such cases were recorded in besieged Mariupol.

  • In response to support for the war by ROC Patriarch Kirill, Ukrainian parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate began to move en masse to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

  • On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

    Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

  • On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

    Many are buried in spontaneous mass graves, the search for the dead continues.

    The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

    A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

  • In April, the Russians regrouped their forces for a full-fledged attack on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

    Fighting is also going on in the Kherson region.

  • Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.