The losses on the Eastern Front dwarf anything else during WWII. The 1943 Battle of Kursk was horrendous. I have a Soviet book, a compilation of Soviet historians and generals descriptions of the battle that involved more than four million troops on both sides, over 69,000 field guns and mortars, 13,200 tanks and self-propelled artillery, and upwards of 11,000 aircraft.
The Germans lost about half a million officers and men, 1,500 tanks , 3,500 field guns and 3,700 aircraft according to the Soviets. Other estimates place German losses about a third of that. Soviet losses were estimated three times the Germans.
It is difficult to comprehend the scale of the battle. Kursk is in Russia not far from the Ukrainian border.
They’re still digging up the dead from both sides of the Kursk battle.
Saw a few videos on u tube . The artillery barrages must have been horrendous.