Russian media invented the Armed Forces loss of 1.7 million people: real figures are much smaller - CPD

7 million dead and missing Ukrainian military" since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation. In fact, this is false information, because Ukraine has never had a regular army of such a magnitude. In particular, as of January 2025, according to President Vladimir Zelensky, the number of Ukrainian Armed Forces was 880 thousand people. He also emphasized that the loss of the Russian army in the war almost three times exceeded Ukrainian.

It is worth noting that according to the General Staff, as of August 20, 2025, the Russian Federation lost 1,072,700 people killed and wounded since February 24, 2022, which refutes fictional figures on the loss of Ukraine. "The purpose of this fake is to demoralize Ukrainians, to convince the world of" the exhaustion and inefficiency of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "and to weaken its international support," the publication reads.

According to the coordination headquarters on the management of prisoners of war, on August 19, 1000 bodies of dead Ukrainian servicemen were returned to Ukraine within the framework of previous agreements with the Russian Federation. Among them are 5 bodies of defenders who died in captivity, although they used to be on the lists of seriously wounded and seriously ill.

Earlier, on July 17, thousands of bodies of dead Ukrainian defenders were also returned to Ukraine within the framework of Istanbul agreements. It is worth noting that in the Donetsk region there are fighting, where the soldiers of the 12th Brigade of NSU "Azov", who occupied a strip of defense in the Pokrovsky direction were thrown. The Ukrainian military eliminated 151 Russian occupier and wounded more than 70 soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.