Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead - BBC News
In the second 12 months on the front line the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.
22 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineBy Olga Ivshina, Becky Dale & Kirstie BrewerBBC RussianRussia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark, the BBC can confirm.
In the second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy - we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.
BBC Russian, independent media group Mediazona and volunteers have been counting deaths since February 2022.
New graves in cemeteries helped provide the names of many soldiers.
Our teams also combed through open-source information from official reports, newspapers and social media.
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