 To date, its casualties are believed by Western intelligence to be close to 500,000 in two and a half years. Ukraine is faring better, but really no better off. Russia is a much larger country and theoretically should have more people available to fight. But Russia's problem is they don't want to call up the elites or upper class to fight. So they're looking abroad for people to fight. Ukraine has more than 60,000 troops that have been killed and more than 400,000 are estimated to have been wounded.