Tens of thousands of fighting for Russia die on the front line in Ukraine
BBC News Russian

More than 95,000 people who are fighting for Russian servicemen, according to the BBC, the war in Ukraine has died when entering the fourth year of the war.
This figure does not include those who serve those who serve in the mileage of the Donbas republics of the Donbas republics we assessed between 21,000 and 23,500 fighters.
The BBC Russian, Independent Media Group Mediazona and volunteers have been death since February 2022.
The list includes the names of the deceased that we have used information from official reports, newspapers, social media and new memories and graves. It is believed to be higher than the number of true dead.
Compiled and disposable
Daniil Dudnikov, a 21-year-old historical student at Donetsk National University, reads international relations and enjoyed swimming.
On the first day of Russia, officials forcibly mobilized Daniil on February 24, 2022, on February 24, 2022, on February 24, 2022, and sent to Kharkiv region.
A month later, Daniil took action on March 25. None of the 18 soldiers in the section returned. 13 people were killed and five were convicted. Four months later, after the exchange of a prisoner, the survivors confirmed that Daniil was one of 13 people killed in the battle.
Daniil’s story is mirrors mirrors from the verses of thousands of residents from the separatists who supported Moscow in 2014 in 2014 in 2014.
In 2022, civilians with full-scale Russian occupation are often offensive and weakly equipped before impossible missions. This resulted in a number of dead and missing soldiers, where dead and missing soldiers were not known for a few months or years.
The majority of the Donbass Militia, the most released reputations and missing persons from the regions, in the first year of the occupation, compared to the total number of Russian military losses in the same period – 25,769 deaths.
Despite many people in the occupied parts of Ukraine’s relatives or friends in Russia, it is less integrated into the country’s daily life, which is little “visible” to ordinary Russians.
Criminals in battle
Another large number of Russian losses are prisoners involved in prisons.
Ildus Sadykov lived 59 for stealing a bag at the railway station in Moscow. The fourth time ended in prison, and for only 16 years, a separate criminal spent on the bars for conviction.
“They told me: ‘If you do not want to return to prison, sign a contract.’ I was sure that in my age, I was appointed to the role of a helper, only I went to the front. “Well, I went with him in the summer of 2024 after being caught by the Ukrainian forces.
After an inmate exchange, he returned to Russia where he was re-sent to the frontal phones. This month, Ildus Sadykov was killed in the battle.
Currently, the BBC’s war loss of war is 16,171 convicts complaining about the penalty colonies, which is a database in Russian. These are the cases we can only check criminal records through open sources. The real number of late prisoners is very high.
We can estimate that in three years of occupation of prisoners, including the analysis of the documents leaking from the Wagner Group Private Military Company. Many of these individuals lived in correctional facilities, expiring from a wider society and years.
Most of a war can see
“Losses are the most resources, education, finance or political, education, finance, or political of the Russian society, the director of the Russian Institute in London at the Royal College, Gulnaz Hazdatinova said.
“The Kremlin brought this way in this way, ensures that the most privileged part of society is closed in the war. Thus, the recruitment of prisoners and foreign mercenaries.”
“In small towns, people are more aware of the loss scale. The war hit social groups not only to protest, but the discussions are limited to personal conversations,” he said.
Only 30% of the Russians in September 2024, according to a public opinion request from the Project of Chronicles, therefore exposed to war with family relations. 80%.
It is difficult to measure original support for the war in Russia, because many respondents are afraid to speak honestly. However, a study handed over by the ProPA project supported by Helsinki University, 43% of the surveyed Russians have openly supported the occupation.
“If more people know that he personally falls, the relationship would be different?” Russian sociologist asks Viktor Vaxshtayn. “Surely.”
Count the dead
Russia’s real losses are higher than almost open source information. We have estimated that the research of military analysts, cemeteries, war memories and objections of the BBC, which is only 45% from 45% to 65%.
In addition, the bodies of many of the murder in recent months remain in the battlefield because live soldiers are exposed to Drone holidays to get them.
Given the above estimate, the real number of Russian military deaths may vary from 146,194 to 21169. If one adds the estimated losses from the DPR and LPR forces, the total number of aligned deaths can vary from 167,194 to 234.669.
Russia said the last official in September 2022 and reported military casualties and fewer than 6,000 deaths.
Ukraine recently, in December 2024, while confessing the death of 43,000 Ukraine between President Volodymyr Zelensky, soldiers and officers, the loss figures were updated in December 2024. Western analysts believe that this figure considers the submeli.
Ukrainian losses from open sources, currently listed more than 70,400 surnames of the Ukrainian soldier. Checking a random example of 400 of them found me to be reliable in the database.
The Ukrainian casualties list is more than the Russian equivalent, because the presidential orders of the Ukrainian President’s posthumous military awards may be obviously. Such information is classified in Russia.
As the war approaches the fourth year, the global focus gave impetus to peace talks of the new US management. We continue to watch the activities of Russian military cemeteries and war monuments, and in September last year we continue to analyze the sharply growing lokers in September.