The group of Russian soldier mothers has been warned to shut up, they were even labeled a foreign interest group
Russian losses in Ukraine approach Soviet casualties in Afghanistan.
Yelena Vasilyeva, the Russian civic activist who created the site tracking Russian casualties of the war in Ukraine today reported some very terrible casualty statistics that confirm what has been reported in social media over the weekend. She reports that Russian “selected” special forces, marines and airborne troops suffered at least 382 killed in action and up to 500 wounded in the last three days. She cautions these are incomplete numbers and relates that only complete remains brought to the morgues in Donetsk are processed and sent to Russia as “Cargo 200”, while Russian forces have stopped processing partial remains such as limbs and other body parts. Instead, these are collected and unceremoniously disposed of in various ways, with no effort to attempt DNA analysis. As a result, she and the Russian Soldiers Mothers group report the number of Russian troops killed in Ukraine since March-April of last year that are confirmed has risen to 6242 and another 5860 have “disappeared without a trace.” If it is assumed that the MIA’s are, in fact, KIA’s, the total exceeds 12,000. The reported number of Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan by comparison was 14,453 over a period just exceeding nine years, from 1979 to 1989.
It is another illustration of why the number of 4000+ people killed in Ukraine thus far that is constantly repeated in established media is nonsense. The ability to track these numbers is being further curtailed as the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia has reportedly deployed five mobile cremation KAMAZ units into occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine.