figures in the infobox once again i found this the russian defeat of berlin was inevitable for they outnumbered the germans in men guns tanks and planes that's a lot more x more men and no german artillery in infobox at all until recently the russians had claimed that they lost men during the battle for the seelow heights and in berlin the actual figures are unknown yet no less than red army soldiers were killed at seelow and the staggering figure of killed in berlin seems more plausible konev complained at one point that he was losing men a day because zhukov's artillery failed to shift fire when asked zhukov denied that allegation stating that konev was not using his troops intelligently now a hole damn lot more wikipedia now claims only communist soldiers were killed in the whole operation while even the old soviet figures were appearently more in the city alone i'd like to note battle of the seelow heights says communist soldiers were killed in this battle which is even more than claimed by these sources other source modern russian the battle of berlin was a costly and bloody one with over soviet casualties the number of german losses is unknown but roughly were taken prisoner infobox says captured still another however it should be noted that the soviet union placed their own casualties as over in the two weeks of fighting from the oder to the collapse of berlin this number included killed wounded and missing interestingly recent western sources place the total casualties suffered by the soviets as even higher although the exact estimate of russian casualties during the battle for berlin is unclear infobox says killed etc while everyone knows the soviet numbers were completely unreliable how about just not putting any figures as are really just unknown also britannica about overall soviet unknown losses available estimates of soviet casualties vary widely a soviet officer who served with the high command in berlin and left the soviet service in placed total military losses at dead or missing in battle dead in prison camps died of woundsand estimated civilian casualties at these figures have been widely accepted in germany but most u s compilations based on soviet announcements list to battle deaths calculations made on the basis of population distribution by age and sex in the u s s r census give some credence to the higher figures for they seem to indicate losses of from to males of military age in world war ii the figures used here are a compromise estimate not intended to obscure the fact that soviet casualties are in reality unknown in the west