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25 February, 11:14
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Verified Russian combat losses surpass 200,000, media reports

The verified count of Russin officers and soldiers killed in Ukraine war has passed 200,000 according to fresh media research that sited new survey findings.

As of February 25, the total number of Russian servicemen confirmed to be killed in Ukraine war stood at 200,186. The figure remains a conservative estimate of the human toll Russia suffered since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The data, compiled by a group of exiled media outlet Mediazona and BBC Russia, has referred to open-source death records like court documents and obituaries. The group confirmed all off the Russian military losses by name, using cross-referenced data from death certificates, cemetery records, funeral announcements, obituaries, geo-located graves, social media updates, unit rosters

The group’s mapping project identified 26,600 cities, towns, and villages across all thirteen of Russia’s time zones as the hometowns of men killed in Ukraine. According to the report, every Russian city, without exception, has received the remains of soldiers who were deployed to Ukraine and died there.

The authors of the research have also pointed to the fact that the death tolls are not distributed evenly among Russian regions with “stark social stratification… overwhelmingly borne by the remote provinces and the poor.” The group explained that despite the fact that two-thirds of Russians reside in cities, two thirds of Russian losses have come from small towns, settlements, rural villages.

The republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, along with the Sverdlovsk region, still rank highest among all regions for the total number of combat fatalities. Since February 2022, the war-related death toll has reached roughly 9,300 in Bashkortostan, 7,500 in Tatarstan, and 6,700 in the Sverdlovsk region.

Russia has not revealed official number of its troops killed in Ukraine war. However, according to the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Western intelligence reports, Russia’s war-time fatalities have already exceeded 2 million.