After the war started, I took a look at russian demographics and according to the last statistics posted before the war, Russia was at around 22 million males between 18 and 40. We know that they are also recruiting older males, people from Donbas and Crimea and other countries. We know that a huge amount of russians left the country after the invasion. We do not really know how many and we do not know how many have returned due to visa issues etc.
Remember that means killed or injured, because in military terms a casualty is anyone that can’t fight tomorrow. Dead is usually 1/3 of casualties.
The UK ministry of defense has some additional numbers
That’s against a population of ~144 million, so with overlap:
After the war started, I took a look at russian demographics and according to the last statistics posted before the war, Russia was at around 22 million males between 18 and 40. We know that they are also recruiting older males, people from Donbas and Crimea and other countries. We know that a huge amount of russians left the country after the invasion. We do not really know how many and we do not know how many have returned due to visa issues etc.
1 million is a really, really big number
For comparison with wars that the US has been involved in - Deaths as percentage of total population
Taken from Wikipedia
deleted by creator