Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead

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Source: BBC

Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead

16 April 2024
Olga Ivshina,
BBC Russian Service

Russia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark - the BBC can confirm.

In the second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy - we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.

BBC Russian, independent media group Mediazona and volunteers have been counting deaths since February 2022.

New graves in cemeteries helped provide the names of many soldiers.

Our teams also combed through open-source information from official reports, newspapers and social media.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0de197pmxxo

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1. 474% more than the U.S. in Vietnam

At that pace they are looking at 275,000 deaths over 11-years. In that timeframe in Vietnam we had lost 58,000.

Russians are far more accepting the death of their sons and that’s a telling message.