Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Russia has lost the military initiative in Ukraine as costs continue to mount. The Russian military has suffered 1.4 million battlefield casualties and as many as 450,000 deaths since its February 2022 full-scale invasion, according to new CSIS data. In addition, Ukraine has orchestrated an increasingly successful campaign of short-, medium-, and long-range strikes against Russian military and economic targets.
CSIS's Seth G. Jones and Riley McCabe unpack Russia's losses in the war, whether those losses have translated into gains on the battlefield, and what this could mean for a potential path towards ending the conflict.
To read the full report, visit https://cs.is/4vEBcj5
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Russia has lost the military initiative in Ukraine as costs continue to mount. The Russian military has suffered 1.4 million battlefield casualties and as many as 450,000 deaths since its February 2022 full-scale invasion, according to new CSIS data. In addition, Ukraine has orchestrated an increasingly successful campaign of short-, medium-, and long-range strikes against Russian military and economic targets.
CSIS's Seth G. Jones and Riley McCabe unpack Russia's losses in the war, whether those losses have translated into gains on the battlefield, and what this could mean for a potential path towards ending the conflict.
To read the full report, visit https://cs.is/4vEBcj5
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