Russian irretrievable losses in war against Ukraine reach 200,000, report says
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This number was based on estimates from U.S. think-tank Center for Naval Analyses, which indicates that on average, about three and a half Russian soldiers are injured for every one killed in action.
However, this estimate does not include the losses of the so-called “people’s militias” of Russian proxies in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The journalists were also unable to determine even an approximate number of Russian troops who went missing after invading Ukraine.
Journalists from BBC Russian Service and the Russian publication Mediazona managed to identify the names of 10,230 people who died since Dec.1, 2022. However, the list only includes the deaths that could be verified from open sources, and the actual number of Russian losses is expected to be higher.
According to their most conservative estimate, the number of Russian troops killed has reached 45,000, and this number was used to assess the total irretrievable losses.
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The majority of losses were among the units Moscow staffed with convicts, with at least 3,100 of them killed in attacks near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, since Dec. 1, 2022.
Since February, most of the conscripted prisoners have been sent not to Wagner PMC, but to the so called “people’s militias” of Moscow’s proxies in the region.
The journalists also learned from open sources about the deaths of 2,153 mobilized Russian citizens, 60% of whom died between Dec. 1, 2022, and March 1, 2023.
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