Between 500,000 and 600,000 deaths, both military and civilian. That is the approximate toll, four years after Vladimir Putin decided to launch the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The war has become the deadliest bloodshed in Europe since World War II, far surpassing the wars in Yugoslavia. If war-disabled people are included, the total nears 2 million people, according to calculations by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based consider tank specializing in security issues. However, this is only an estimate, as both Ukraine and Russia have classified their military losses.
According to a United Nations report from mid-February, the number of proven and identified Ukrainian civilian victims has reached 53,006 since February 24, 2022, including 15,954 deaths. To this must be added the tens of thousands of civilian victims in the 20% of Ukrainian territory occupied by the Russian army, among them the 22,000 people killed, according to Kyiv, during the three-month siege of Mariupol by the Russian army in the spring of 2022. However, this figure cannot be verified becautilize Mariupol is occupied and the Russian authorities are testing to hide the extent of the massacre.
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