The number of Russians killed in the war in Ukraine in the year after Russia's February attack has already surpassed the losses sustained by the Soviet military in its war in Afghanistan, which lasted nearly a decade, SIA refers to local media.
Kyiv claimed Friday that almost 146,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the war.
Russia has not updated its official death toll since September 2022, when Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 troops were killed in Ukraine.
Over 15,000 Russian soldiers have been confirmed killed in Ukraine since the start of the Kremlin’s invasion, according to an independent tally published on the war's one-year anniversary Friday.
Among the 15,136 dead servicemen identified by the investigation are more than 1,800 officers of the Russian Armed Forces, 199 of whom were in the rank of lieutenant colonel or above. They also included 1,214 reservists drafted during the autumn mobilization campaign to bolster troop numbers in Ukraine.
At least 1,310 Russian fighters killed in Ukraine had been prisoners recruited by the Wagner mercenary group, according to Mediazona.
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