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An amazing scoop by Radio Free Europe reporters, much info here from Russian defector [1]
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Date: 2025-02-25
Exclusive: Russian Defector Leaks Files Revealing Shocking Scale of War Casualties
www.rferl.org/...
There’s a treasure trove of data in these leaked files.
The database was provided to RFE/RL by Sergeant Aleksei Zhilyayev, who commanded a military evacuation unit attached to 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division and has since fled to France, where he is seeking political asylum. An RFE/RL analysis of the records identified 165,584 unique entries: names, ranks, dates of admission, dates of discharge, location of treatment, type of wounds or injuries, and units in which soldiers served -- not only regular units, but also the now-defunct mercenary group Wagner and the military intelligence agency, known as the GRU.
Dara Masicott, a Washington-based analyst who recently published a major report on the Kremlin’s coming efforts to rebuild and “reconstitute” its military, said the database reflects how Russia’s armed forces have transformed over the past three years as the invasion -- which the Kremlin expected to be swift, short, and decisive -- turned into a massive war of attrition. As Ukrainian forces first mounted an agile defense -- and later, large-scale offensives -- they inflicted substantial casualties, forcing Russian authorities to widen recruitment efforts to replenish decimated units.
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