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More than 50,000 Russian soldiers have died since the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 according to a tally by the BBC’s Russian-language service and the Russian website Mediazona. The calculation, published after joint research and completed on April 7, 2024, is based on different sources of information, such as official press releases, news in the press and on social networks or visits to cemeteries. Neither Ukraine nor Russia have published official reports
of losses since the beginning of the war, so both media
caution that their count is not intended to be exhaustive.
At the end of February, Ukraine estimated the number of people at 31,000
its dead soldiers, while the Russian army never has
reported its military losses.