Several explosions reported in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea. https://t.me/zsuwar/37311
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Buryatia’s disproportionate casualties linked to excessive mobilization and potential systemic discrimination
17/ Some regions, such as Buryatia, have been suffering disproportionate number of casualties. The CIT attributes this to an excessive level of mobilisation in such places; some researchers have pointed to systemic discrimination against the regions. /end
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Mobilized soldiers complain about serving 11 months without leave
14/ "Now many mobilised people complain that they have been serving for 11 months and have never been home.
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Soldiers promised six months service, medals, and money, not frontline duty.
13/ "In the beginning, they were told: "You will serve for six months and go home, no one will send you to the front line" – and they thought: "Now we will go quickly, get medals, money and come back."
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Massive losses of Russian conscripts in 2023 Ukraine battles
More peaks came in the Spring of 2023 during the fighting for Avdiivka and Bakhmut, when many Russian conscripts were transferred to units under the command of the Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics'. Their commanders likely expended thousands of people in failed assaults.
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War casualties peaked in autumn 2022 meat grinder; mobiks died en masse.
9/ The number of casualties has ebbed and flowed during the war, with the highest peaks coming during the 'meat grinder' at Kreminna and Svatove in eastern Ukraine in the autumn of 2022. Mobiks have also died en masse in Ukrainian attacks on their barracks and convoys.
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Russian Major Nikolai Isakov killed in Russia during pro-Ukrainian incursion
5/ At the other end of the scale, 62-year-old Major Nikolai Isakov from the Tver region survived eight months in Ukraine. He was killed in Russia, in the Shebekinsky district of the Belgorod region, during the June 2023 incursion by the pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps.
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Youth informed on war more inclined to evade mobilization, says CIT
6/ The CIT attributes the demographic disparities to younger people being better informed about what is happening in the war, and therefore being more inclined to evade mobilisation.
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Russian death toll in Ukraine after one month
At least 130 died within the first month of mobilization, with some being killed just days after arriving in Ukraine. 20% were killed within two months, with the average mobilized soldier dying within 4.5 months. 0.2% lasted 11 months before they were killed.
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Investigation reveals thousands of Russian mobilised soldiers have died across all regions.
2/ A joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) has analysed the reported deaths of thousands of mobilised Russians. They found that almost every region of Russia has sustained fatalities, with the youngest just 19 and the oldest aged 62.