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How many Russians have died in Ukraine? Data shows what Moscow hides (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HowRu68 to c/[email protected]

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BRUSSELS — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead.

Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.

Update: Full article in comments seperated also link to meduza in English

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[–] marmarama 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhere between 9000 and 42000 civilians depending on estimates, and probably 20000-30000 military, again depending on estimates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any sources for these estimates?

[–] marmarama 3 points 1 year ago

I pulled them from the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Total_casualties which seems to be kept fairly up-to-date with the reasonably credible claims, including the Meduza estimates. Original references are in the Wikipedia article.

I added the 30000 upper bound as a fudge for the Ukrainian military deaths because the one somewhat credible estimate from the US that table lists only covers up to May 2023. While Ukraine has been on the offensive since then, I don't think increasing the KIA numbers by more than 50% in 2 months is credible even under the circumstances.