Vladimir Putin has requested nearly 250,000 certificates for Russian soldiers who died in Ukraine.
Around 230,000 certificates have been created for the families of soldiers who have passed away, as stated by the Russian government through Verstka media outlet.
This provides the best estimate of how many Russian soldiers have died, because the government only admits to the deaths of 6,000 publicly.
The papers are given to women whose husbands died and to the kids of soldiers.
An additional 757,305 certificates were bought for soldiers who survived a war, making the total number of Russian soldiers involved close to one million.
Verstka said that the numbers could give us an idea of how many Russians were involved in the fights and how many were injured or killed, but not exactly.
Ukraine says that over 270,000 soldiers from Russia have died in the war.
At an event where people receive awards in August, Putin was seen with Angelina Ivanov. She is the wife of a Colonel named Denis Ivanov who was killed, and together they have two children.
The wife of the killed Guard Captain Roman Vorobyov was seen in a picture with Vladimir Putin during a state award ceremony on August 2, 2023.
He also saw the wife of the guard captain who was killed.
This week, Ukraine stated that over 270,000 Russian soldiers have died in a war caused by Putin’s wish to invade Ukraine, which is its neighboring country.
Two separate news sources investigated the conflict and discovered that approximately 50,000 men have died.
According to experts, Kremlin officials have been consistently attempting to hide the death count, but their efforts have not been successful.
Mediazona and Meduza partnered with a data scientist from Tubingen University in Germany to find a more accurate representation of the number of lives that have been lost.
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