drkohler on 11 September 2022
An interesting memo from the Russian Finance Ministry waas leaked by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In essence, the Ministry wants more money for compensating dead soldiers:
361.4 billion rubles have been paid to the families of the deceased
For each fallen soldier,it's 7.4 million rubles
In total,this gives 48,759 confirmed dead
Missing and DPR + LLR soldiers are not counted
If true, that means the Ukranian estimates of 52k soldiers killed are pretty much spot on. (The Ministry numbers certainly don't include Wagner deads as those people "don't exist" officially).
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