Ukraine’s military units will be able to update their casualty rates inflicted on Russian forces via the Army+ app, officially launched in late-2024, as the country’s Ministry of Defence issued a new claim stating its units had inflicted nearly 800,000 military casualties on Russia since February 2022.
Announced on 3 January, Ukrainian military units will shift to submit daily reports on Russian losses via the Army+ app, a software development that is increasingly being used as a nexus for the management of data surrounding the near three-year-old war.
The move, adopted during a government cabinet session, will see daily updates sent to the app, with confirmation of losses from the DELTA combat systems able to be attached to reports.
“The implementation of losses reporting in the Army+ app marks a significant step toward enhancing the efficiency of Ukraine’s Defence Forces,” stated Rustem Umerov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine.
“This project will enable the generation of more objective and transparent statistics on confirmed enemy losses, as well as allow for monitoring the performance of commanders and military units based on clear criteria,” Umerov added.
Kateryna Chernohorenko, Deputy Minister of Defence for Digital Development, who announced an expansion of Army+ into recruitment and retention in September 2024 and has driven the development of military apps, said the move would enable the creation of a “comprehensive” combat dashboard.
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By GlobalData“Commanders will submit daily reports, with all data aggregated in a single repository. This will enable tracking individual units’ performance,” Chernohorenko stated.
The Ukrainian MoD said the digitised Russian casualty claims would “serve as a source for analysing the effectiveness of various type of weapons and ammunition”, which would help “better understand which weapons must be prioritized for production and supply”.
Ukraine claims nearly 800,000 Russian casualties
Shifting to data-driven decision making could drive efficiencies across the Ukrainian military, which sustained a series of tactical defeats in 2024 with the loss of the towns of Avdiivka, Vuhledar, Selydove, and Kurakhove in 2024.
Newly released figures from Ukraine released on 6 January claimed its forces had inflicted another 1,550 Russian casualties overnight, with the total now standing at about 798 040 since 2022.
This compares with about 509,860 on 2 June 2024, indicating Russian casualties in the second half of the year would have exceeded 250,000 killed and injured in combat.
It is impossible to independently verify Ukraine’s claims of Russian casualties, which are traditionally inflated by each side during war. The United States stated in March 2024 that Russia had sustained “at least 315,000” personnel killed or wounded.
In terms of equipment, Ukraine claims to have destroyed 9,700 tanks, 20,174 armoured fighting vehicles, 21,665 artillery systems, 1,258 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,034 anti-aircraft systems, 369 fixed-wing aircraft, 331 helicopters, 21,625 tactical UAVs, 3,006 cruise missiles, 28 warships, one submarine, and 33,056 other vehicles and fuel tanks, in fighting since February 2022.
Even given the likely inflated claims, Russian losses are far and way the most costly conflict it has been involved in for generations.
Ukraine’s own losses are a state secret, although it is likely that its combat casualties will be in excess of 100,000 since the outbreak of large-scale operations.
