More than 50,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, according to media count

More than 50,000 Russian soldiers have died since the invasion of Ukrainein February 2022, according to counts by the BBC’s Russian language service and the Russian website Mediazona.

The calculation, published after joint research and completed on April 7, 2024, is based on several sources of information, such as communications from press employees, news in press and social networks, or through visits to cemeteries.

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None Ukraine none Russia published official accounts of their losses since the start of the war, so both media They warn that their tell It is not intended to be exhaustive.

At the end of February, Ukraine estimated at 31,000 the number of its soldiers deadwhile the Russian army avoids reporting its military losses.

The spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitri Peskovresorted this Wednesday to the “state secrets law” and the “particular case” of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to justify the lack of official communication about the military losses of its army.

Last August, the New York Timesciting US officials, estimated Russian military losses at 120,000 soldiers dead.

On January 29, in a written response to a deputy, the British Defense Secretary, James Heappeyset the number of soldiers Russians dead or injured.

At work, BBC Russian It is Intermediate zone They were particularly interested in the fate of Russian prisoners recruited to fight at the front.

Tens of thousands of prisoners were recruited from Russian prisons in exchange for a promise of release.

According to the investigation of the two mediain a sample of advance Of the 1,000 prisoners, half of those recruited into the Russian army died within two months of being sent to the front.

Those recruited by the Wagner paramilitary group usually died within three months of enlistment.

Both media They also point out that advance of 27,300 soldiers Russians They died in the second year of the conflict “illustrating the enormous human cost of the territorial conquests” obtained by the army sent by Vladimir Putin’s government.

Source: Elcomercio

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