
Evidence has emerged in Russian government documents to confirm Ukrainian reports of Russia's staggering losses in the war, which now stand at 273,460 killed
Russia's labour and social development ministry has ordered 259,493 death certificates since the all-out war's start, according to tender documents discovered by independent Russia media Verstka
The discrepancy with Ukraine's higher figure can be accounted for by the fact that until June, Russia only provided death certificates to families of deceased regular army personnel
About 20,000 Wagner mercenaries are thought to have been killed in the war - virtually all in fighting before June
"The numbers may indirectly indicate the approximate scale of the Russian group participating in the battles and losses," Verstka reports
The same ministry also ordered over 936,000 combat veteran certificates - a figure that coincides with Ukrainian and other figures for the number of starting and newly recruited troops Russia has deployed to Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
An amalgam of Ukrainian, Western and independent Russian data suggests...

About 2.4 Russian troops are wounded for each soldier killed in the war (a rate much lower, for example, than the U.S. WWII wounded-to-killed rate of 4-to-1 - owing to poor Russian combat medicine)

This suggests about 650,000 Russian have been wounded

60% of Russian wounded - or about 390,000 - have likely returrned to duty after medical treatment

This leaves just over 400,000 Russian troops deployed in Ukraine - almost perfectly coinciding with Ukrainian figures
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