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Russian Military Personnel - Casualties

It took 15,000 deaths to force Soviets out of Afghanistan. The wives and mothers of the Russia's dead soldiers in Afganistan, that lead to the withdrawal of the Russian army from that country.

Under the Russian system soldiers from the mercenary groups like Wagner, and the rebel groups of the LPR, and DPR don't get counted as Russian army deaths, this is why you have so many Russian conscripts complaining they have been signed over to the LPR and DPR - Putin doesn't want their deaths counted as Russian army deaths.

By 10 June 2022 the number of Russian soldiers killed since Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine could now be as high as 20,000, according to the latest assessment by western officials. Previous estimates, given several weeks ago, were about 15,000. The official did not speculate on the number of Ukrainians killed in the war.

A leaked document from a Russian government agency stated that as of August 2022 48K+ Russian soldiers had died, making an avg of 8k per month.

On 17 March 2023, BBC News Service Russia estimated from publicly available data that up to 47,000 men had died on the Russian side.

In April 2023 dozens of classified US Defence Department documents - maps, charts and photographs - were circulating on the internet. The US estimated that between 189,500 and 223,000 Russian soldiers had been killed or wounded. The Pentagon said it had "low confidence" in the figures, due to gaps in information, operational security and deliberate attempts, probably by both sides, to mislead.

Nearly 50,000 Russian men had died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead, released 10 July 2023. Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine. To do so, they relied on a statistical concept popularised during the COVID-19 pandemic called excess mortality. Drawing on inheritance records and official mortality data, they estimated how many more men below the age of 50 died between February 2022 and May 2023 than normal.

That was roughly in line with a May assessment by the White House that more than 20,000 Russians had been killed in Ukraine since December, though lower than the US and UK intelligence assessments of overall Russian deaths. A leaked assessment from the US Defense Intelligence Agency put the number of Russians killed in action in the first year of the war at 35,000 to 43,000. In February 2023, the UK Ministry of Defence said approximately 40,000 to 60,000 Russians had likely been killed in the war.

By June 2023, BBC " identified more than 25,000 named individuals - people we know to have died - setting a bare minimum for Russia's total losses. The count provides hard evidence of the war's impact on Russian forces. But it has also given answers to grieving families. Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them." These are only confirmed fatalities. These are only the graves of soldiers whose bodies were (1) retrieved (2) transported home, and (3) whose deaths or burials were publicly announced — i.e. by family in local papers. Prigozhen states that over 20,000 Wagner were killed in Bakhmut alone and you must also take into consideration that there was thousands of regular Russian troops, airborne forces and separatists killed in Bakhmut also. People erroneously think that it was only Wagner troops in Bakmut. That Wagner soldier who escaped to Norway at the beginning of the year states that there is numerous mass graves in Luhansk containing Wagner soldiers.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 263,490 Russian invaders in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to September 1, 2023, including 470 invaders in the past day alone. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this 01 Septeember 2023, according to Ukrinform. ChrisO_wiki reported 18 September 2023 "The Russian government has ordered 230,000 certificates for family members of deceased soldiers – a vast increase from the 23,716 it ordered in May 2023 and 5,777 in 2022. It likely illustrates the scale of the casualties it anticipates as the Ukraine war continues. Russia's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (Mintrud) has listed an order for nearly a million certificates on the Russian government's procurement portal. As well as 230,000 for family members of the deceased, the order includes 757,305 combat veterans' certificates. ... The Ministry of Defence will receive 200,000 of the certificates for family members of the deceased, with another 30,000 going to to the Ministry of Social Protection. The numbers are vastly greater than in the last two orders for certificates. In May 2023, Mintrud printed 95,907 certificates for combat veterans and 23,716 for family members of the deceased. An earlier order in the summer of 2022 resulted in the printing of 82,840 certificates for combat veterans and 5,777 certificates for family members of the deceased. So far, Mintrud has ordered a total of 936,052 certificates for combat veterans during the war."