Based on open sources, the BBC and Mediazona managed to identify more than 10,000 Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine. Among them are more than 400 mobilized. At the same time, publications admit that the list may contain at least 40-60% fewer names of the dead than actually buried in Russia..

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Note, according to the Ukrainian General Staff, the losses of the invaders in manpower have already reached 92 thousand.

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A BBC investigation found that Russia's Krasnodar region had the most confirmed casualties (428 deaths), followed by Dagestan (363 deaths) and Buryatia (356 deaths).

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By comparison, there are only 54 confirmed deaths in Moscow, which itself makes up 9% of Russia's population.. The BBC concluded that while citizens of national republics (such as Dagestan, Buryatia, Altai and Bashkortostan) go to the front and die in combat more often than citizens of ethnically Russian regions, in absolute terms, ethnic Russians make up the majority of those killed among the Russian military, and they.

This finding may suggest that divisions in efforts to build Russian troops are based on regional and territorial features rather than predominantly ethnic ones, the journalists say..

Military service as salvation in the provinces.

And they note that military service is considered the only salvation in the regions on the economic periphery of Russia, where social mobility is very limited..

As previously noted by the Institute for the Study of War, which in today's report draws on the Air Force investigation, the consequences of the formation of the Russian armed forces were firmly hidden on a regional basis, which is further broken down into ethnic and socio-economic lines..

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Protect ethnic Russians by involving national minorities in the war.

BBC investigation partly contradicts preliminary ISW assessments that the Kremlin was trying to shield ethnic Russians from war by disproportionately engaging minority regions. ISW has no reason to question this conclusion..

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The BBC investigation also revealed that both elite units and officers suffered significant losses in Ukraine.. The BBC reported that Spetsnaz of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU Spetsnaz) suffered 250 confirmed losses, almost 25% of which were officers, which in the case of individual Spetsnaz units exceeds the combined losses of more than 10 years of Russian operations in Chechnya.

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BBC additionally identified 1,509 confirmed officer deaths, or 15% of 10,002 identified casualties.