Russian soldier death toll hits 50,000 in war with Ukraine | BBC News
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Published 2024-04-17
In the country's second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called 'meat grinder' strategy - the body count was found to be nearly 25% higher than in the first year.
BBC Russian, independent media group Mediazona and volunteers have been counting deaths since February 2022.
Russia has declined to comment.
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All Comments (21)
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Neither Russia or Ukraines "Official Losses" make sense
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ah yes "50,000 dead" does that mean the other 406,000 are "missing in action"
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A shocking waste of men's lives on both sides.
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Huh I thought it was 300k according to this same media
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The Way BBC is able to get supposed Russian Loses but unable to get real number of Ukraine Loses, is amazing, it seems, Ukraine soldiers are spirits.
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50,000 graves. The other 400,000 dead bodies are still out in the fields.
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🪖'Every soldier is a mothers son.' 🙏
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Ukrainian loses 30000 only. Russian loses 50000. BBC😂
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What about the death toll of Ukrainian army?
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What about in Ukraine it is more that that?All problems cause west and Americans
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Lots of people in comments don't seem to know the difference between dead and casualties (dead and wounded).
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The Russian Armed Forces fired missiles at the location of French mercenaries in Slavyansk, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is interesting to know the statistics of the deaths of foreign fighters in Ukraine.
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I highly doubt that
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I just wondering how bbc knows that
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Sad for these poor men, most of whom had somebody, or many family members who loved and depended on them.
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False News
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500000 not 50000
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Zelensky claimed around 800k in active service but had suffered only 31k casualties so far. Then why does he need an additional 500k??
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A few months ago the number was up to 113,000.
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Western propaganda, how do you officially know its 50k?
