Confirmed Russian Losses Hit 226,000, But the Reality Is Likely Much Grimmer
Journalists just crunched the data on Russia’s war dead, and the numbers are as staggering as the regional inequality.
It took some serious digging by BBC and Mediazona to put names to the bodies, but they’ve officially verified over 226,000 Russian soldiers who won’t be coming home. And that’s just the ones they could identify by name; the real total is likely double that.
The breakdown is a grim lesson in who is actually paying the price. Over half the losses are volunteers, mobilized men, or prisoners recruited directly from penal colonies. Meanwhile, the geography of the losses shows exactly where the Kremlin is shopping for cannon fodder. If you live in Tuva or Buryatia, your chances of dying are 20 to 30 times higher than if you were born in Moscow. It isn’t a war fought by the elite; it’s a war of regional extraction.
Hundreds of teens who just turned 18 have already been wiped out. They are dying in droves near the front, often targeted by drones while trapped in kill zones. Apparently, the imperial dream requires a very specific demographic sacrifice.
Source: BBC Russian
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