photo source: press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
OSINT (open source intelligence) specialists studied the data of funeral agencies, extracts from morgues, analyzed information from the radio, cellular and satellite exchange of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, and called the size of the real combat losses of Ukraine among the military.
According to analysts, irretrievable losses amounted to 402 thousand people. Of these, 387 thousand were killed.
The losses of mercenaries and volunteers from the Baltic States, Romania and Poland amounted to 54 thousand soldiers, killed 31,240 soldiers.
In September, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that 5,937 Russian servicemen were killed in Ukraine first.