Illustrative photo – A Russian soldier aims a machine gun from a Russian military helicopter flying over an unknown location in Ukraine on January 17, 2023.
Moscow – In the last two weeks, the number of fallen Russian soldiers in Ukraine has increased several times compared to the usual weekly Russian losses, the BBC News server reported. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, together with the independent portal Mediazona and a group of volunteers, he has been monitoring the number of Russians whose deaths in the fighting in Ukraine are reported by open sources. While last year, according to the BBC, reports of 250 to 300 dead people appeared in these sources every week, in the first two weeks of this month, journalists managed to confirm the names of 1,679 dead.
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This is the highest increase in Russian losses since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February last year, the BBC reported. She pointed out that we are only talking about the fallen, whose names can be traced and verified. According to her, the actual losses will probably be higher. In addition, her analysis of the situation at cemeteries in more than 60 Russian municipalities shows that there are approximately twice as many Russian soldiers buried in 2022 as on her list of dead since the beginning of the war.
According to the BBC, a large part of the dead in the last three months are soldiers called to arms during mobilization, recruited convicts and also those who signed a contract with the Russian armed forces after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, i.e. so-called volunteers.
According to the most conservative according to BBC estimates, approximately 29,500 soldiers have lost their lives since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the BBC, there are also an average of 3.5 wounded for every dead person.
Many estimates of Russian losses are much higher. Citing American and other Western officials, The New York Times reported this month that the number of dead and wounded Russian soldiers was approaching 200,000. Analysts from the Russian investigative project Conflict Intelligence Team even estimate Russian losses at 270,000 dead.
According to British military intelligence, losses in the Russian armed forces and in the ranks of Russian mercenaries represent 175,000 to 200,000 people, of which 40,000 to 60,000 are powdery mildew . Russian losses, according to British intelligence, have increased significantly since Moscow announced a partial mobilization last September.
