how many soldiers were killed?

This officer has in his hands the portrait of a commander of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, who died in combat. Of the twenty generals engaged since the start of the war in Ukraine, at least one other has officially been killed. The number of Russian losses is classified as a defense secret. But three days ago, a newspaper very close to the Kremlin acknowledged on its site that there had been 9,861 dead on the Russian side. This article was removed a few hours later.

This number is close to the estimates given by the Americans, who mention 10,000 deaths in less than a month. In Afghanistan, there had been 15,000 in ten years. An American researcher scoured the websites of Russian cities and found dozens of death announcements. Circumstances or even specific locations are never mentioned. A Russian law concerning fake news about the army muzzles all this information.