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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ryan Fahey

Russian soldiers' families use Kremlin-banned Telegram to check 'dead or alive' status

Distraught Russian families are frantically searching a Telegram channel showing the Kremlin's soldiers slaughtered daily by the Ukrainian army.

The number of Russian soldiers slain since the start of the invasion has been stacking up, with unconfirmed Ukrainian estimates reaching a staggering 30,000 dead Russian men, women and teens.

In Russia, where the death toll is being downplayed, the Defence Ministry claimed just 1,351 service members had been killed during the first month of the war.

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