Over one million people sent by Putin to the front have died, gone missing, or been permanently maimed.
72% confidence
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Omissions
The CSIS figure of 1.2 million includes all wounded personnel, not just those permanently maimed. The majority of wounded military personnel do not suffer permanent maiming.
The data used is from December 2025, not from March 2026 when the claim was made.
The claim does not distinguish between killed (~325,000), missing (unknown number), and permanently maimed (subset of wounded), conflating total casualties with the most severe outcomes.
Sources used are from March-April 2026 and therefore published after the session date, though they reference data from December 2025 which the MEP could have accessed.
Sources
SecondaryCSIS - Russia's Grinding War in UkraineRussian forces have suffered approximately 1.2 million casualties (killed, wounded, and missing) and as many as 325,000 killed since February 2022 to December 2025