In the war in Ukraine, 14,709 Russian military were already killed, whose names were able to establish the Russian BBC service and “Mediazone” based on open sources.
according to their assessment, over the past two weeks, the increase in the number of dead has grown five times. In two weeks, journalists established the names of 1,679 dead. They call such a number of confirmed losses the largest increase for the entire invasion of Ukraine. The real number of losses is definitely more, emphasizes BBC.
Having studied the situation in cemeteries in more than 60 Russian settlements, journalists believe that their list contains at least half the names of the dead than really buried in Russia. General irretrievable losses, which includes wounded and missing, can reach 133 thousand people. Most of the dead over the past three months have been mobilized, volunteers who have concluded a contract with the Ministry of Defense or the Russian Guard after the outbreak of the war, and prisoners.