The count, which the BBC said stopped on September 19, was based on public information published in official statements, obituaries in the media or death announcements on social networks, as well as from monitoring graves in Russian cemeteries.
The BBC said: “We have identified the names of 70,112 Russian soldiers killed in UkraineBut the real number may be much higher.”
At the end of August, the death toll reached Russian soldiers The media reported 66 thousand.
MediaNuza and Meduza, another independent Russian media outlet, are analyzing available official, verified data, which leads them to estimate that the death toll will reach at least 120,000, based on the high death toll recorded over the past two and a half years.
The Kremlin has cited the State Secrets Act and the Special Regulations to justify the lack of official reporting of military losses. Ukraine, for its part, also rarely reports its losses.
In February, the Ukrainian president estimated Volodymyr Zelensky The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed during the war is 31,000, a figure that analysts and observers say is considered an underestimate.
The American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, reported in a report published on September 17 that: War in Ukraine It left a total of one million dead and wounded on both sides.
