The headline is a bit confusing as to just what's being counted. From deeper in the article: Of the 360,000 troops that made up Russia’s pre-invasion ground fo

The headline is a bit confusing as to just what's being counted. From deeper in the article: 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. 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. 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. So even with a number that staggering, the war is a long way from over.