From Moscow Times:
“Mobilized Russian Troops Endure Quick Losses in Ukraine War
– Report”
One in five mobilized Russian soldiers who died in the
Ukraine war were killed less than two months after being enlisted, the
independent investigative outlet IStories and the war monitoring project
Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) reported Thursday, citing publicly available
data. IStories and CIT said their figures are based on data related to the
deaths of nearly 3,000 draftees who have died since President Vladimir Putin
announced a "partial" mobilization last September. However, the two
outlets stressed that the true death toll among mobilized troops is likely much
higher. The approximately 3,000 draftee deaths were documented by media
reports, official announcements and relatives of soldiers who chose to speak
publicly. Only four of the mobilized reservists who died in the conflict lasted
more than 11 months before being killed, according to IStories and CIT. More
than half of the mobilized troops killed were between the ages of 30 and 45 at
the time of their death, according to the analysis, while nearly a third died
between the ages of 20-29.
Moscow rarely comments on its war dead and the Russian
Defense Ministry last updated its soldier death toll in September 2022, placing
the figure at under 6,000 killed. Western intelligence documents leaked earlier
this year put the actual number closer to 110,00 Russian soldiers wounded and
killed by February 2023. Since announcing a "partial" mobilization of
300,000 reservists on Sept. 21, 2022, Russian authorities have digitized
military records and tightened criminal punishment for draft evasion, as some
observers have speculated that the Kremlin is preparing for a new draft
campaign. Yet the first wave of mobilization initiated last year is technically
still in place as Putin, who publically declared its end in November, has not
signed a presidential decree that officially concludes mobilization.
^ 1 in every 5 of the 300,000 Mobilized Russian Men aged 20
to 75 are killed within just 2 months of going to Ukraine.
That doesn’t include those wounded or those Conscripted to
fight aged 18-20 or those in the Regular Russian Military.
In 576 Days of fighting the Russian Military has had 274,470
Soldiers killed in Ukraine. ^
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