Data Shows How Many Russians Have Died In Ukraine

BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine, according to a new statistical analysis. Moscow has tried to hide the human toll of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, censoring local media and cracking down on activists who document Russia’s expanding cemeteries. Now, two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist in Germany, have used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets. Using inheritance records and official mortality data, they calculated how many more military-aged men have died since February 2022 than expected. They found that around 47,000 more Russian men under age 50 died between February 2022 and May 2023 than normal.