Approximately a quarter million Russian soldiers have been killed in the 'Special Military Operation' in Ukraine. Insiders say the death toll is likely to be much higher.
The fighting in a number of towns in the east has been deadlier than the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, which officially cost the lives of about 15,000 soldiers. The US war in Vietnam cost 58,000 American lives.
The figures also reflect the uneven burden of Russia’s 2022 invasion, which disproportionately targeted some ethnic minorities, and a pattern of heavier recruitment of men from poorer regions. Large numbers from east of the Ural mountains have lost their lives. And then those who were ‘recruited' in North Korea and the African continent.
[Information from The Irish Times]
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