The headline is a bit confusing as to just what's being counted. From deeper in the article:<p><i>Of the 360,000 troops that made up Russia’s pre-invasion ground force, including contract and conscript personnel, Russia has lost 315,000 on the battlefield, according to the assessment.</i><p>In other words, the number of its casualties is 87% the number of people it had on the first day of the war. It's not actually 87% of those original 360,000 individuals.<p>The number of Russian troops in Ukraine is nonetheless larger than that original 360k count. It might be around 500,000, though estimates have enormous error bars. Russia has a draft, and is recruiting from inside prisons.<p>So even with a number that staggering, the war is a long way from over.