Russian losses accelerate in Ukraine

Russia has suffered more than 20,000 fatalities in recent months as they battle to take the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the U.S. estimates


Kyiv
UKRAINE
Bakhmut
RUSSIA
300km 185 miles


Russian control as of May 1, 2023 
Russian advances
Claimed Russian control

KHROMOVE
Children’s Hospital
IVANIVSKE
H32 highway
YAHIDNE
Bakhmutka River 
AZOM industrial complex
BAKHMUT
ZABAKHMUTKA
City council building
SOBACHIVKA
1km 0.6 miles


RUSSIAN TROOP LOSSES IN UKRAINE
According to U.S. estimates
100,000
Killed or wounded in first eight months of war (Nov 9, 2022 estimate)

100,000 
In five months since Dec 2022 – includes 20,000 killed and 80,000 wounded (May 1, 2023 estimate)


Sources: AP, Financial Times, Institute for the Study of War
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