A collage of five photographs showing scenes from the war in Ukraine
  • February 24, 2023, marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
  • Hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have been killed or wounded.
  • Billions of dollars of aid has been sent, and Russia has lost about half its fleet of tanks.

Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, which kicked off the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. 

When his troops invaded on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin expected to quickly sweep through the country and capture Kyiv. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his forces met the invasion with striking resistance and — with the help of a united West and a series of fumbles by Russia — were able to hold them off, defying expectations throughout the world.

Still, the cost of the war — in lives, dollars, and military equipment — has been high. Here are some of the key figures illustrating the consequences of the war so far.

Widow Anastasia Ohrimenk mourns over the body of her fiance Oleksiy Zavadskyi, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on January 15 in Bakhmut during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, on January 19, 2023.
Widow Anastasia Ohrimenk mourns over the body of her fiance Oleksiy Zavadskyi, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on January 15 in Bakhmut during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, on January 19, 2023.

The dead and wounded

  • Russian troops killed: 40,000 to 60,000, per UK Defense Ministry
  • Russian casualties, or troops killed or wounded in action: Up to 200,000, per UK Defense Ministry
  • Ukrainian troops killed: Up to 13,000, per a Ukraine official in December
  • Ukrainian casualties, or troops killed or wounded in action: Over 100,000, per General Milley estimate in January
  • Civilians killed: At least 8,006, per the UN
  • Civilians injured: At least 13,287, per the UN
  • Ukrainian children killed: 461, with 927 wounded and 345 missing, per Children of War
  • Notable Russians who have suspiciously died since the war started: At least two dozen, per The Atlantic
  • Civilians killed in the Kyiv region — including Bucha: "More than 1,700 civilians were killed" in the Kyiv region, "including about 700 in Bucha," per the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, on February 22.

Ukrainian refugees in Poland
Ukrainian refugees are seen after crossing into Poland on March 13, 2022.

Refugees and those who have fled or been taken

  • Ukrainian refugees: 8 million, per UNHCR
  • Ukrainians displaced within the country: 5.9 million, per UNHCR
  • Ukrainian children taken to Russia: At least 6,000, per Conflict Observatory (Kyiv has put this number at 14,000)
  • Russians who have fled the country: At least 500,000, per The Washington Post

HIMARS system being loaded into back of plane on runway
Soldiers load a High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS ) from a US Special Operations MC-130J aircraft during military exercises at Spilve Airport in Riga, Latvia, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022.

Aid to Ukraine

  • Total amount of security assistance to Ukraine from the US: $29.8 billion, per DOD
  • Total amount of aid to Ukraine from the US, including humanitarian, financial, and military: $76.8 billion, per the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Total amount of aid to Ukraine from the Europe Union: $58.2 billion, per the Kiel Institute

Russian tank
This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukrainian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Military

Several men, dressed in white and some wearing masks, pull a body out of a ditch.
A team pulls a body from a mass grave in Bucha, Ukraine.

Other

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