Forbes: Russia Inadvertently Posts Its Casualties In Ukraine: 2,000 Deaths, 3,200 Disabled
Russian president Vladimir Putin has decreed that all Russian casualties “in peacetime” be a state secret. In addition to criminal charges arising from divulging state secrets, families risk losing pensions and lump-sum payments if they reveal that their sons were killed in Ukraine. Mothers of soldiers’ associations have been branded “foreign agents” for collecting data on Russian casualties. Dissident Boris Nemtsov was murdered shortly before completing his study of Russian casualties in Ukraine. Russian civil rights organizations, working against the fog of official resistance, could confirm only several hundred battlefield deaths.
Business Life (Delovaya Zhizn) reports on markets, finance, entrepreneurship, finance, and leisure, scarcely an outlet for sensational information. Its innocuously entitled “Increases in Pay for Military in 2015,” however, reveals what appear to be official figures on the number of Russian soldiers killed or made invalids “in eastern Ukraine.” Russian censors quickly removed the offending material but not before it had been webcached by the Ukrainian journal Novy Region (New Region). Here is the “top secret” material the censors removed (my translation):
WNU Editor: Before he was killed Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was compiling a report that alleged "hundreds of Russian soldiers had died in Ukraine, only for their deaths to be covered up by the authorities". What's my take .... Russian social media is alive with reports on the number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine .... but thousands .... I am sceptical. Boris Nemtsov's report is more detailed and is probably more accurate ... he also focused on those who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, and were killed there.
More News On Reports That Thousands Of Russian Soldiers Been Killed In The Ukraine War
Russia 'accidentally reveals' number of its soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine -- The Independent
Have thousands of Russian soldiers died in Ukraine? -- Channel 4 News
Russia's Classified Ukraine Crisis Death Toll Appears to Have Leaked -- NBC
Number of Russian Troops Killed in Ukraine Accidentally Published Online By Russia? -- IBTimes
2 comments:
WNU Editor,
With out individual service records, these sort of lists just document those that were killed or crippled, in service.
Given the brutal hazing conditions, the accident rates and the poor quality of training and maintenance, it's believable that several thousands of Russian Servicemen are killed or crippled every year.
It's not believable that they all were killed and crippled in the Ukraine.
Correct Jay. I one time heard that 1,000 Russian soldiers die each year from accidents, hazings, natural causes, etc.. Even U.S. soldier deaths ... before 9/11 and during peace time sometimes touched 1,000 deaths. http://www.factcheck.org/2008/01/military-deaths-under-clinton-and-bush/
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