Deaths of at least 200 thousand Russian servicemen in Ukraine confirmed
The "BBC Russian Service" and "Mediazona", together with a team of volunteers, managed to identify the names of 200,186 Russian servicemen killed in the war, by the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian serviceman. Illustrative photo: Iryna Rybakova Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP
As noted by the BBC, over the past month, the number of entries in the database maintained by journalists has increased by 35 thousand people, but this is not related to the situation on the front line.
"Over the past month, we managed to cross-reference records collected over several years with open data from state databases — primarily with the lists of the inheritance registry," the publication explains.
Journalists note that it can be said with a high degree of confidence that 2024 has become the bloodiest year for the Russian army.
The BBC and Mediazona confirmed the names of 49,935 Russian servicemen who died last year. In 2024, at least 83,706 Russian soldiers and officers died, but "the array of yet unprocessed obituaries, in which 2025 is mentioned as the date of death or burial, still contains tens of thousands of records."
According to preliminary estimates, the number of those killed last year could exceed 90,000 people.
According to Mediazona, 122.7 thousand deceased Russian servicemen belonged to the urban population, and 57.2 thousand to the rural population.
Large cities and millionaire cities "are almost untouched by the war": two-thirds of the deceased lived in settlements with fewer than 100,000 people.
In terms of the absolute number of casualties, Bashkortostan (7.7 thousand), Tatarstan (6.8 thousand), and Sverdlovsk Oblast (6.3 thousand) top the list.
Among large regions, Tuva (476 people per 100 thousand population) ranks first in per capita losses, followed by Buryatia (400 killed per 100 thousand population), Zabaykalsky Krai (362 per 100 thousand), and the Altai Republic (316 per 100 thousand).
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