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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Pro-war Russian blogger who revealed huge Avdiivka losses dies by suicide

A village near the Avdiivka frontline
A village near the Avdiivka frontline. Morozov said Russia had lost 16,000 soldiers during its months-long capture of the city. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Andrey Morozov, a prominent pro-war Russian blogger, has reportedly died by suicide following outrage over a post in which he claimed that the Russian army lost 16,000 soldiers during the capture of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.

Morozov, who went by the pseudonym Murz on Telegram, was an ultra-nationalist commentator who fought alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and participated in Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

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