These figures, however, are both widely suspected to be inflated and have not been verified by AFP or independent conflict monitors. Moscow said on March 25 its forces had killed at least 14,000 Ukrainian miliary personnel.
Kyiv says its troops have killed 19,600 Russian military since the invasion began in late February. The defence ministries of both Ukraine and Russia regularly publish claims of the number of troops they have killed from the opposing side. The UN tally doesn't include military deaths. In light of this, the UN announced last week it would change its methodology and release figures that reflect "a realistic estimate of the actual death toll," the head of its civilian casualty monitoring team said. The UN however makes clear it "believes that the actual figures are considerably higher," citing delayed reported from the battlefield and efforts to verify existing reports. The benchmark today in many global conflicts is the United Nations, which as of Tuesday this week estimated that in Ukraine there had been "4,450 civilian casualties in the country: 1,892 killed and 2,558 injured." Here's what we can say definitively about the human cost from the conflict in which allegations of Russian atrocities have spurred fears of a massive civilian death toll.
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