On 25 May 2024, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence reported that **Russian individual losses in Ukraine exceeded half a million soldiers**. This statistic can be shocking due to the fact that in mid-February only 400 1000 Russian "soldet" were reported to be eliminated. The average monthly failure rate compared to the first 2 years of the war grew almost twice. By mid-February 2024 it remained at the monthly level of about 18 1000 Russians eliminated. For the past 3 months, however, this has been 30,000, and there have been respective reasons.
