War in Ukraine: Russia’s casualties reached 118,139 military

The BBC in collaboration with the Russian Mediazona website and a group of volunteers, drawing on open sources, have identified the names of 118,139 Russian soldiers who have been killed in the Ukraine War to date. Among the dead are more than 500 foreigners from 28 countries including the US and Sri Lanka. These are those inhabitants of foreign states, who, at the time they signed a contract with the Russian army, had no Russian citizenship and their death could be confirmed on the basis of open sources, that is, by authorities’ announcements, publications of relatives on social media or social media. The actual number of foreign citizens who fought in Ukraine on the side of Russia is much larger, the BBC writes, noting that no Ukrainian side data or Western spying publications were used during the drawing of the nominal list. Among the dead aliens whose identity was made to be identified, most were citizens of Tajikistan […]
Source: News Beast

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