Russian authorities use various strategies to recruit new troops to replenish its supply of soldiers for its nearly 4-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine

The Trump administration has suggested it could provide Ukraine with more weapons to strengthen its peacetime army if Kyiv agreed to withdraw forces from the parts of the eastern region it controls, t

Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has continued to suffer massive losses in manpower and equipment, which are recorded and updated daily as of the end of January 2026, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In his remarks at Ukraine's parliament, Mykhailo Fedorov warned of nearly 2 million Ukrainians dodging the military draft.

Russia has lost 1,234,040 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Jan. 25. The number includes 1,020 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on Wednesday that 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers are officially considered as absent without official leave (AWOL), meaning they have left their positions without permission to do so.

Jones and McCabe also compared the pace of modern Russia's offensive with that of the Soviet Union's advance on the Leningrad Front in 1943. Back then, they estimated that Soviet troops advanced an average of 1,000 meters a day. And during the Battle of Bello Forest in Germany in 1918, American troops advanced 410 meters per day.