Nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine, according to a new statistical analysis

BRUSSELS — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead.

Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.

Update: Full article in comments seperated also link to meduza in English

  • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
    41·
    1 year ago

    Anyone have a non-paywalled version? It would be nice if you would post the entire article contents as post body if you’re going to post paywalled sources, @HowRu68@lemmy.world.

      • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
        21·
        1 year ago

        Huh. I’m getting a ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH error on that link. I was getting the same error when I tried to do it myself with archive.is (archive.ph is down and I get a cloudflare page).

      • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
        7·
        1 year ago

        do you have any reason to believe that meduza, a news site run by russians from latvia, and medizona, also run by russians, is american propaganda besides ‘theyre not pro russian government’

          • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.

            its literally the second sentence in