Thousands of fights for Russia’s death is not noticed on the frontline in Ukraine

More than 95,000 people fighting for Russian military has died that the War Ukraine will enter the fourth year, according to the BBC-checked data.

This figure does not include killers who serve militia self-declared Donbas Republic estimated between 21,000 and 23,500 warriors.

BBC Russian, Independent Media Group Mediazona and volunteers counted since February 2022.

The list includes the dead names that we have proved that we use information from official reports, newspapers, social media, and new memories and graves. The real death is believed to be higher.

Daniil Dudnikov, a 21-year-old student in Donetsk National University, reading international relations and enjoys swimming.

On the first day of Russia’s advancement in Ukraine, on 24 February 2022, the authorities of the owned Donetsk People’s Republic moved by Daniil and sent him to the Kharkiv region.

A month later, on 25 March, Daniil lost in action. Of 18 soldiers in his unit, nothing returned. 13 Killed, and five were taken prisoners. Four months later, after a prisoner exchange, those who survived Daniil was one of the 13 killers.

Daniil’s story suggests thousands of residents from self-declared republics of Donetsk and Lahansk to the Sinim language in Moscow in Eastern Ukraine.

With the full invasion of Russia in 2022, civilian men were drafted by many, often inadequately trained and poorly equipped before being assigned to about to be assigned. This resulted in a shocking number of dead and lost soldiers, fate that often remained unknown in months or years.

According to our analysis of published obituaries and lost persons reporting from regions, most of the deaths of Donbass Military disappeared at the same time to attack at the same time – 25,769 killed.

Despite many people in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine with relatives or friends in Russia, more that it is less likely to be in the daily life, which is less “visible” in ordinary Russian.

Another big part of Russian losses is criminals recruited by prisons.

Idus Sadykov was 59 when he was arrested for stealing a bag of a Moscow train station. It was the fourth time he finished in prison, spending a total of 16 years behind bars for separate criminal convictions.

“They told me, ‘If you don’t want to rise again, sign a contract.’ They assured me that my age, I would not be sent forward, assigned a auxiliary role. Now, I remember, saying, saying as a prisoner of war Ukrainian summer at 2024.

After an exchange of prisoner, Russia returned him, where he returned to the paths. This month, Idus Sadykov was killed in combat.

Today, the BBC Russian database of war casualties includes 16,171 convicted criminals recruited from genal colonies to fight. These are the only cases where we can verify criminal records by open sources. The actual number of deceased criminals is likely to be higher.

By attaching an analysis of the Leaks Documents of Wagner Private Military Company, we can estimate that the inmates may be as many as a third of Russian invasion. Many of the individuals who live in correction facilities, effectively cut from the wider society, for many years in the end.

“The defeats are widely through the parts of Russian society with fewer resources, they can be educated, financially,” as Glizaz Sharafutdinova, director of the Russian Institute of King College.

“The Kremlin is as designing this way, it is ensured that the most privileged sections of society remain more convinced from the war. Concerning the recruitment of prisoners and foreign mercenaries.”

“In small towns, people are more likely to know the scale of casualties. The war hit social groups that don’t have their views.

Only 30% of Russians have a direct exposure to the war, by its family connections or family opinion officers who have been injured by a person who died or injured 80%.

Measuring real support for Russian war is hard, because many respondents are afraid of saying honest. But a study proposed by the Project of ProPa, supported by the University of Helsinki, found 43% of Russian surveys apparently supported the invasion.

“Public attitudes differ when more people know that fall?” The leading sociologist was asked in Russian Vikhshtayn. “Without a doubt.”

The actual losses in Russia are almost certainly higher than open-sourt data can be revealed. The military historians we considered the BBC research, based on graves, war memories, probably gained 45% of the 65% of the total casualty.

Added to which, the bodies of most of the dead in the present months are likely to remain in the battlefield, because they can get these soldiers away from drone attacks.

Given to estimate above, the true number of Russian military deaths may be from 146,194 to 211,169. If one adds approximation losses from DPR and LPR forces, the total number of deaths decayed in Russia can range from 167,194 to 234,669.

The last officer reported by the military military on September 2022, and cited for more than 6,000 deaths.

Ukraine updated casualties of December 2024, when President Voltodyrr Zelensky acknowledged 43,000 killed in Ukrainian to soldiers and officials. Analysts believe it is an under-estimate.

Website Ukraine losses, gathering casualties data from open sources, now listing over 70,400 surnames of Ukrainian soldiers. Our verification of a random sample of 400 of them has found the database reliable.

Ukrainian casualty list is likely to be more complete than Russian equivalent, as Ukrainian empathies at the posthumous military awards maintained publicly available. In Russia such data is classified.

As the war approaches the fourth year, the global attention shifted to the push of the new US administration for the security negotiations. We continue to monitor the activity of the cemeteries in Russian military cemeteries, and analyzes the obituary, which is saddened by September last year.