Close to 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the invasion of Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of the country’s war dead – a joint effort by independent Russian media and a German-based data scientist that uses Russian data to shed light on one of Moscow’s most closely guarded secrets.
“Roughly 47,000” lives lost – such is the devastating human cost for Russian forces of President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, according to the first independent estimate of Russian casualties since the start of the invasion in February 2022.
