"Unveiling the True Toll: Russian Casualties in Ukraine Echo Soviet-Afghan War"

An independent statistical analysis conducted by Russian media and a German-based data scientist estimates that close to 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the invasion of Ukraine, significantly exceeding Moscow's official death toll. The study, which used inheritance claims as a data source, suggests that in 15 months of fighting, three times more Russian soldiers died in Ukraine than Soviet troops did in 10 years of war in Afghanistan. When factoring in seriously wounded soldiers, the total casualty count rises to at least 125,000. The study's findings shed light on the scale of Russian deaths in Ukraine, a topic that both Moscow and Kyiv have been tight-lipped about.