At least 47,000 Russian soldiers have reportedly been killed from the start of the war in Ukraine to the end of May this year. At least, this appears from a data analysis of the independent Russian media “Meduza” and “Mediazona” and the statistician Dmitry Kobak of the University of Tübingen.
This number is said to have come about after a review of public obituaries, death dates from the Russian Statistical Service, and data from the Inheritance Registry. If you add up the number of men who were so badly wounded during the fighting that they could no longer serve in military service, the total number of Russian casualties rises to at least 125,000 soldiers, reported the internet portal “Meduza”, which was involved in the assessment.
More dead than ten years of war in Afghanistan
The figures exclude missing or captured soldiers and paramilitary fighters who fought in the separatist militias in Donetsk and Luhansk and did not hold Russian passports. The losses are already three times the Soviet losses in ten years of the Afghan war (1979 to 1989) and nine times the first Russo-Chechen war (1994 to 1996).
Russia is trying to hide the number of victims, it is said. Officially, there are no data on the number of Russian soldiers killed. Most recently, the Defense Ministry in Moscow admitted that nearly 6,000 of its own soldiers had died by the end of September 2022. Even then, the information was considered highly undervalued.
London is facing a crisis in medical supplies
According to British intelligence, the high number of wounded soldiers is now affecting medical care in Russia. “The influx of military casualties is believed to have disrupted the normal delivery of some Russian civilian medical services, particularly in regions bordering Ukraine,” the London-based defense ministry said on Twitter Monday (see tweet below).
With an average of 400 casualties per day, there is a supply crisis in the care of wounded Russian soldiers. The ministry quotes the head of combat medicine training at the Kalashnikov weapons company as saying that up to 50 percent of the dead could have been saved with proper first aid.
Slow evacuation of the injured and improper use of bandages is “one of the main causes of preventable deaths and amputations,” it said, citing media reports.
Source: Krone
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