{"id":83061,"date":"2026-02-23T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/4-years-into-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine-a-look-at-the-war-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:22:00","slug":"4-years-into-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine-a-look-at-the-war-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/4-years-into-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine-a-look-at-the-war-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"4 years into Russia&#039;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a look at the war by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 years into Russia&#039;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a look at the war by the numbers<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine four years ago launched Europe&#8217;s biggest conflict since World War II, causing immense suffering for civilians and harrowing ordeals for soldiers while rewriting the post-Cold War security order.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting enters its fifth year on Tuesday, and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has brokered talks with delegations from Moscow and Kyiv as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s yearlong push for peace. But reconciling key differences, such as the future of Russian-occupied Ukrainian land and postwar security for Ukraine, has thwarted progress.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, thousands of each countries&#8217; troops have died on the battlefield, and Ukrainian civilians have been battered by Russian aerial strikes that have brought years of power outages and water cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the conflict, by the numbers, since the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.8 million<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The upper end of the estimated number of soldiers killed, wounded or missing on both sides, according to a report last month by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.<\/p>\n<p>It estimated that Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025 &#8211; what it said was the largest number of troop deaths for any major power in any conflict since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has not released figures on battlefield deaths since January 2023, when it said more than 80 soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian strike, bringing the total military deaths Moscow has confirmed to just over 6,000.<\/p>\n<p>CSIS estimated that Ukraine has seen 500,000 to 600,000 military casualties, including up to 140,000 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month that 55,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war. Many are missing, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Moscow nor Kyiv gives timely data on military losses. Independent verification is not possible.<\/p>\n<p><b>14,999<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission&#8217;s count for civilian deaths in Ukraine since Russia&#8217;s all-out invasion, though it says that is likely an underestimate. More than 40,600 civilians were injured over the same period, it said in a December report.<\/p>\n<p>The war has killed at least 763 children, according to the U.N.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. The conflict killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 in the country in 2025 &#8211; a 31% increase in civilian casualties over 2024, it said.<\/p>\n<p><b>19.4%<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of Ukrainian land occupied by Russia, according to the Institute for the Study of War.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Russia has gained just 0.79% of Ukraine&#8217;s territory in the grinding war of attrition, the Washington-based think tank said in calculations provided earlier this month to The Associated Press, underscoring the little progress Moscow&#8217;s forces have made despite huge costs in troops and armor.<\/p>\n<p>Before Russia&#8217;s all-out invasion, it controlled nearly 7% of Ukraine, including Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east, as Moscow-backed separatists fought the Ukrainian army, according to Ukrainian officials and Western analysts.<\/p>\n<p>13%<\/p>\n<p>The percentage drop in foreign military aid to Kyiv last year compared with the annual average between 2022 and 2024, according to Germany&#8217;s Kiel Institute, which tracks assistance to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump stopped sending American weapons paid for by the U.S. to Ukraine after he took office just over a year ago. European countries, striving to make up the difference, increased their military aid last year by 67% compared with the 2022-2024 period, the institute said in a report this month.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine fell by 5% last year in comparison with the average in the previous three years, it said.<\/p>\n<p><b>5.9 million<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The number of Ukrainian civilians who have left their country.<\/p>\n<p>Some 5.3 million of those people have found refuge in Europe, according to a report this month from the U.N. office in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, around 3.7 million Ukrainians forced out of their homes have moved elsewhere within the country, the U.N. said in December.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s prewar population was more than 40 million.<\/p>\n<p><b>2,851<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The number of Russian attacks that affected the provision of medical care in Ukraine, according to the World Health Organization. The figure covers the period from the full-scale invasion through Feb. 11.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks include 2,347 strikes on health care facilities, as well as ones that damaged vehicles and the storage of medical supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-02-23\/world-news\/4-years-into-Russia-s-full-scale-invasion-of-Ukraine-a-look-at-the-war-by-the-numbers-6736287466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 years into Russia&#039;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a look at the war by the numbers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 years into Russia&#039;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a look at the war by the numbers Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine four years ago launched Europe&#8217;s biggest conflict since World War II, causing immense suffering for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-83061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}