4. Independent media Moscow reports 50,000 Russian men killed during war in Ukraine
The first independent statistical analysis to reveal Ukraine war casualty figures puts nearly 50,000 Russian men dead.
According to The Guardian, two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, collaborated with a data scientist from the German University of Tübingen.
They mapped the death toll during the war by drawing on a statistical concept commonly used during the Covid-19 pandemic, excess deaths.
In compiling the data, they used Russian government data to determine the number of people involved in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Based on inheritance records and official death dates, they estimate how many men under the age of 50 will die between February 2022 and May 2023.
Neither Moscow nor Kiev provided timely data on military losses.
Each competes to increase the other side’s losses.
Activists and independent journalists report that military casualties during the war are widely reported in the Russian media.
