Cecile Feuillatre and Joris Fioriti, Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Ukrainian rescuers work on site following an overnight missile strike on a residential district in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, early Thursday. At least 3 people were killed and 21 injured, according to the Ukrainian Emergency Service (SES). Sergey Shestak, EPA-EFE" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/overseas/02/02/20230202-ukraine-missile-strike-epa-1.jpg"/><figcaption>Ukrainian rescuers work on site following an overnight missile strike on a residential district in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, early Thursday. At least 3 people were killed and 21 injured, according to the Ukrainian Emergency Service (SES). <em>Sergey Shestak, EPA-EFE</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>PARIS, France - When Russia&#x27;s President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he started a war that has killed tens of thousands of people, ravaged cities, and pummelled the country&#x27;s economy.</p><p>A year on, here is the cost of the conflict:</p><div><strong>Military losses</strong></div><p>According to the latest estimates from Norway, the conflict has wounded or killed 180,000 Russian soldiers and 100,000 Ukrainian troops.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/23/23/russia-taken-180000-dead-or-wounded-in-ukraine-norwegian-army">Russia taken 180,000 dead or wounded in Ukraine: Norwegian army</a></li></ul><p>Other Western sources estimate the war has caused 150,000 casualties on each side.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/02/14/23/the-ukraine-war-from-azovstal-to-z">The Ukraine war, from Azovstal to &#x27;Z&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>In comparison, some 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in a whole decade of fighting in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.</p><p>Ukrainian soldiers often use the term &quot;cannon fodder&quot; to describe the Russians sent to their death along the frontline.</p><p>They are often poorly trained conscripts who stand little chance against Ukrainian forces determined to defend their country.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/10/22/russia-admits-conscripts-take-part-in-ukraine-operation">Russia admits conscripts &#x27;take part&#x27; in Ukraine operation</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/09/26/22/russia-vows-to-fix-mistakes-after-old-sick-people-mobilized">Russia vows to fix mistakes after old, sick people mobilized</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/12/28/22/against-all-odds-how-russia-is-failing-in-ukraine">Against all odds: How Russia is failing in Ukraine</a></li></ul><p>Others are convicts recruited in Russian jails to swell the ranks of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, who Kyiv and its allies say are deployed on near-impossible missions with the equivalent of a gun pointed to their head.</p><p>The onslaught has also taken its toll on the Ukrainian side, as shown by the endless blue and yellow national flags fluttering above cemeteries across the embattled country.</p><div><strong>Civilian losses</strong></div><p>By the time Moscow&#x27;s forces seized control of Mariupol in late May after three months of heavy bombardment, the southern port city had been reduced to a sea of rubble strewn with dead bodies.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/11/22/zelensky-tens-of-thousands-killed-in-mariupol">Zelensky: &#x27;Tens of thousands&#x27; killed in Mariupol</a></li></ul><p>Kyiv said at least 20,000 Ukrainian civilians had been killed.</p><p>In total, some 30,000 to 40,000 civilians have lost their lives nationwide in the conflict, Western sources say.</p><p>In late January, the United Nations estimated that 18,000 civilians had been killed or wounded in the fighting, but said the real figure was likely much higher.</p><p>Ukrainian authorities say at least 400 children have been killed.</p><p>The United Nations says most of the killed civilians lost their lives during Russian bombardment.</p><p>Long term, landmines will also be a huge threat to civilians.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/21/22/russia-troops-rig-ukraine-villages-with-mines-booby-traps">Mines and booby traps: Risky return home for Ukrainians</a></li></ul><p>Kyiv says 30 percent of Ukrainian territory has been contaminated, while Human Rights Watch accuses Ukrainian troops of having planted banned anti-personnel landmines in the eastern region of Izyum.</p><p>Experts warn demining could take decades.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/12/14/22/swathe-of-ukraine-contaminated-with-mines-zelensky">Swathe of Ukraine contaminated with mines: Zelensky</a></li></ul><div><strong>War crimes</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on Saturday, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a " rapid="" from="" northern="" areas="" around="" Kyiv="" and="" the="" city="" of="" Chernigiv.="" Ronaldo="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/04/03/20220402-ukraine-russia-crisis-kyiv-apf2-s.jpg"/><figcaption>Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on Saturday, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a &quot;rapid retreat&quot; from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. <em>Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Several images have come to symbolize the war&#x27;s devastating impact on ordinary Ukrainians.</p><p>When AFP journalists entered the Kyiv suburb of Bucha on April 2, 2022, they found one street littered with the bodies of civilians.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1987475" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>One man had fallen onto his bike, another still had a shopping bag in his hand. Yet another had his hands tied behind his back.</p><p>Days later, a child&#x27;s toy lay bloodied at a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, after a Russian missile hit as thousands of civilians waited for a train to flee the violence. At least 57 civilians were killed.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/08/23/russia-hits-kramatorsk-in-retaliatory-strike-ministry">Russia hits Kramatorsk in &#x27;retaliatory strike&#x27;: ministry</a></li></ul><p>The previous month, people around the world saw the photograph of a heavily pregnant woman on a stretcher being evacuated from a Mariupol hospital after it was bombed. Neither she nor her baby survived.</p><p>Around 65,000 suspected war crimes have been reported throughout the war, the European Union&#x27;s justice commissioner Didier Reynders says.</p><p>UN investigators have accused Russia of committing war crimes on a &quot;massive scale&quot; in Ukraine -- bombings, executions, torture and horrific sexual violence.</p><p>Kyiv alleges Moscow has forcibly deported more than 16,000 children to Russia or areas controlled by Moscow-backed separatists.</p><p>Several NGOs have condemned Ukraine, meanwhile, for violating the rights of Russian prisoners of war, but on a much smaller scale.</p><p>The International Criminal Court launched an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity last year.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/04/13/22/war-crime-crime-against-humanity-genocide-whats-the-difference">War crime, crime against humanity, genocide: What&#x27;s the difference?</a></li></ul><p>But it cannot prosecute either country for any possible war crimes since neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the Hague-based court.</p><p>Kyiv is instead pressing for a special tribunal to be set up to prosecute Moscow for the crime of aggression because it sees this as a way to achieve faster justice and more easily target the Kremlin&#x27;s top officials.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BGkp-gkB-7U?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div><strong>1,500-km frontline</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Fresh graves at a cemetery in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, 24 January 2023. Despite Ukrainian authorities requesting residents to evacuate from the frontline territories, some 8,000 of around 71,000 people living in the area have refused to leave their homes. There is no working infrastructure left - no electricity, heating, water or gas, and due to the ever-present risk of Russian shelling, people mostly spend their time in shelters or the basements of their buildings. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February 2022 starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. EPA-EFE/OLEG PETRASYUK" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/overseas/01/25/20230125-bakhmut.jpg"/><figcaption>Fresh graves at a cemetery in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, 24 January 2023. Despite Ukrainian authorities requesting residents to evacuate from the frontline territories, some 8,000 of around 71,000 people living in the area have refused to leave their homes. There is no working infrastructure left - no electricity, heating, water or gas, and due to the ever-present risk of Russian shelling, people mostly spend their time in shelters or the basements of their buildings. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February 2022 starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. <em>EPA-EFE/OLEG PETRASYUK</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>On the eastern battlefront, entire villages and towns lie in ruins, and the earth is dotted with huge craters.</p><p>Exhausted soldiers lie in wait at the bottom of muddy trenches, while the dull thud of artillery fire booms overhead.</p><p>The &quot;active&quot; frontline runs north to south along 1,500 km (900 miles) of territory, according to Valery Zaluzhny, the commander in chief of Ukraine&#x27;s armed forces.</p><p>Among the hotspots is the town of Bakhmut, dubbed &quot;hell on earth&quot; by many Ukrainian soldiers, where Russian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries have been steadily inching forward in recent weeks.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/26/23/life-during-wartime-in-ukraine-besieged-in-bakhmut">Life during wartime in Ukraine: Besieged in Bakhmut</a></li></ul><p>A few thousand civilians still live in the town, hunkering in cellars without running water or electricity, taking great risks when they venture out for fresh air, food, water and fuel.</p><p>Moscow&#x27;s troops occupy almost a fifth of Ukraine, according to figures from the US-based Institute for the Study of War.</p><p>But Zaluzhny says Ukrainian forces have managed to wrest back some 40 percent of territory occupied after the invasion last year.</p><div><strong>Battered economy</strong></div><p>Fighting has been concentrated in the east of Ukraine since Russian forces withdrew from the north of the country a month into the war, following their failure to capture Kyiv.</p><p>In these areas, homes, businesses and factories have been ravaged.</p><p>Nationwide, Russia has repeatedly targeted key energy infrastructure in recent months, causing blackouts and leaving millions without heating this winter.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/11/17/22/russia-falls-into-recession">Russia falls into recession</a></li></ul><p>The World Bank in October said it expected the country&#x27;s economy to contract by 35 percent in 2022.</p><p>The Kyiv School of Economics in January estimated it would cost $138 billion to replace all the infrastructure ravaged by war.</p><p>In a country famed for its cereal and sunflower oil exports, the war has caused more than $34 billion in economic losses in the agricultural sector, it said in November.</p><p>Some 3,000 schools and 239 cultural sites have been affected by the fighting, the UN cultural fund says.</p><p>Rebuilding Ukraine following the invasion would cost an estimated $349 billion, a joint assessment by the Ukrainian government, the European Commission and the World Bank found in September.</p><p>&quot;The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to exact a terrible toll,&quot; the World Bank&#x27;s Anna Bjerde said at the time.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Men look at Russian tanks destroyed in fights with the Ukrainian army, displayed in Mykhailivskyi Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 15 December 2022. Roman Pilipey, EPA-EFE/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/overseas/01/04/20230104-ukraine.jpg"/><figcaption>Men look at Russian tanks destroyed in fights with the Ukrainian army, displayed in Mykhailivskyi Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 15 December 2022. <em>Roman Pilipey, EPA-EFE/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><div><strong>Millions of refugees</strong></div><p>More than eight million Ukrainians have been forced to flee Ukraine since the war broke out, the UN refugee agency says, the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.</p><p>Neighbouring Poland hosts the largest share of these refugees, with more than 1.5 million of them.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/07/22/poland-opens-doors-as-refugee-count-hits-a-million">Poland opens doors as refugee count hits a million</a></li></ul><p>More than five million people have been displaced inside the country.</p><p>Moscow says another five million people have sought refuge in Russia, though Kyiv has accused the Russians of conducting &quot;forced evacuations&quot;.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="People stay inside the Dorohozhychi subway station turned into a bomb shelter, in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine, 02 March 2022. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February prompting the country" s="" president="" to="" declare="" martial="" law="" and="" triggering="" a="" series="" of="" severe="" economic="" sanctions="" imposed="" by="" Western="" countries="" on="" Russia.="" EPA-EFE="" ROMAN="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/03/04/dorohozhychi-subway-station.jpg"/><figcaption>People stay inside the Dorohozhychi subway station turned into a bomb shelter, in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine, 02 March 2022. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February prompting the country&#x27;s president to declare martial law and triggering a series of severe economic sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia. <em>EPA-EFE/ROMAN PILIPEY</em></figcaption></figure></div><div><strong>Western military aid</strong></div><p>When Russia invaded, the Ukrainian armed forces mostly had outdated, Soviet-era era military equipment to defend themselves.</p><p>Kyiv has repeatedly urged its Western allies to send it modern weaponry, from air defences systems to heavy tanks.</p><p>The West was initially reluctant to becoming too involved in order to avoid any more direct confrontation between it and nuclear-armed Russia, but little by little it has ceded to most demands.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/01/26/23/war-in-ukraine-from-invasion-to-western-tanks">War in Ukraine: from invasion to Western tanks</a></li></ul><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uulOsOHNFEk?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>But President Volodymyr Zelensky&#x27;s request for F-16 fighter jets has so far gone unheeded.</p><p>Among the aid, the United States dispatched Himars precision rocket launchers, with a range of 80 km (50 miles) far superior to that of Russian equipment, that analysts say helped turn the tide this autumn in the battle against the Russians in the Kharkiv region in the northeast and Kherson region in the south.</p><p>By November, Kyiv&#x27;s allies had pledged more than 37 billion euros ($40 billion) in military aid, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.</p><p>That figure does not include the latest announcements in January that the United States, Canada and several European countries will send Ukraine modern battle tanks.</p><p>cf-jf/ah/sjw/yad</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/spY_jSvrr5A?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

When Russia's President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he started a war that has killed tens of thousands of people, ravaged cities, and pummelled the country's economy.

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'Nearly 300,000 dead': Russia's invasion of Ukraine in numbers

Cecile Feuillatre and Joris Fioriti,

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Published Feb 14, 2023 01:15 PM PHT

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