Why this score A belligerent's command reporting its enemy's losses: an interested party on every casualty figure it publishes, with no independent access to verify them. Its tallies are widely relayed (ISW carries them attributed) and track the direction independent counts show, but run well above name-by-name confirmed deaths. Recorded as a claimant, never as a measure.
Since the beginning of autumn, Ukrainian forces have liberated more territory than Russian forces have managed to capture — and it has been the same in other parts of the year.
True. ISW measures a net Russian loss of about 73 km² across the front since September 1 (assessment of October 21); on its count August was also a month in which Ukraine liberated more than Russia seized.
Russian forces suffered 46,320 casualties in September 2026.
Unverified — a belligerent’s count of its enemy’s losses, with no independent access to check it. ISW relays it as the third month running above 40,000 and the highest of 2026, and gives no recruitment figure for the month to set against it.