The Heavy Cost of War: Kyiv Reports Russian Losses Exceeding 1.5 Million Troops and Massive Equipment, While Russia Increases Military Spending

On Monday, September 28, 2026, the Ukrainian military announced a rise in the Russian army's human and material losses since the outbreak of the war on February 24, 2022. According to a statement by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, total Russian military casualties—including both killed and wounded—have reached approximately 1,531,060 personnel, with 2,090 falling in the last twenty-four hours alone.

Key Russian military equipment losses include:

Tanks: 12,385.
Armored vehicles: 25,450 combat vehicles.
Artillery systems: 50,477.
Aircraft and helicopters: 443 warplanes and 356 helicopters.
Drones and cruise missiles: 537,228 drones and 5,118 cruise missiles.
Naval vessels: 35 ships and 2 submarines.

Concurrently with this announcement, Russia has decided to raise its military spending to $202 billion for 2027.

However, it is impossible to independently verify these figures and statistics announced by Kyiv, given that Moscow does not regularly release detailed data matching these estimates, and amidst the ongoing fierce battles and mutual front-line shelling that have persisted for over four and a half years.

This article was written with the help of artificial intelligence.