The Russian service of the BBC and Mediazona have so far established the names of 5,701 Russian invaders who died in the war against Ukraine. Judging by the collected data, the biggest casualties among junior officers, who die more often than their subordinates.

At the same time, the collected information does not reflect the real picture of the losses of the Russian army.. After all, journalists rely on confirmed reports of the death of Russian invaders. However, judging by the information from the cemeteries, where every week journalists find evidence of new military funerals, the established list of the dead may contain at least 40-60% fewer names than actually buried in the Russian Federation..

So, out of 5701 occupiers who died in Ukraine, 966 were officers, which is 17% of all killed Russian soldiers.. Among them there are four generals and 34 colonels.

When analyzing the data, journalists found that the most losses were among junior officers. Apparently, they die about three times more often than their subordinates..

As for senior officers, most of these invaders died in the first two months of the Russian-Ukrainian war. This is especially true for colonels..

Among the Russian regions, Dagestan (270 people), Buryatia (245 people) and Krasnodar Territory (206 people) are in the lead in terms of the number of confirmed killed invaders. At the same time, only 14 soldiers killed in the war against Ukraine were officially confirmed in Moscow.. Although the capital of the Russian Federation accounts for 9% of the total population of the country.

If we talk about the types of troops, then most of the losses are among the infantrymen and paratroopers. Also, according to journalists, it is known about the death of 66 military pilots - specialists who are called the military elite in the Russian Federation..

At the same time, the fastest growing category of losses are the so-called “volunteers”.

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Earlier, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said that the Ukrainian military had defeated a fifth of the units that Russia was preparing for a full-scale invasion..

It was also reported that ten generals and about a thousand senior officers of the Russian Armed Forces were killed in Ukraine during the six months of the war..