Nearly 50 000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead.
Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.
Despite such challenges, Mediazona and BBC News Russian, working with a network of volunteers, have used social media postings and photographs of cemeteries across Russia to build a database of confirmed war deaths.“These are only soldiers who we know by name, and their deaths in each case are verified by multiple sources,” said Dmitry Treshchanin, an editor at Mediazona who helped oversee the investigation.
According to their analysis, 25 000 more inheritance cases were opened in 2022 for males aged 15 to 49 than expected. By 27 May 2023, the number of excess cases had shot up to 47 000. “Their figures might be accurate, or they might not be,” Treshchanin, the Mediazona editor, said in an email. Independently, Dmitry Kobak, a data scientist from Tübingen University who has published work on excess Covid-19 deaths in Russia, obtained mortality data broken down by age and sex for 2022 from Rosstat, Russia’s official statistics agency.
Sergei Scherbov, a scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, cautioned that “differences in the number of deaths between males and females can vary significantly due to randomness alone”.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
More than 1 000 calls logged regarding street pesticide exposureThe Western Cape Government (WCG) has issued a public warning about the dangers of street pesticides in the province. The pesticides, designed to target and eliminate several pests that can be harmful to human health are often registered for agricultural purposes.
Read more »
Dysfunctipalities: Nearly 300 KZN councillors can't read or write | News24Almost 300 councillors in KwaZulu-Natal can neither read nor write, according to a Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs skills audit report. | soyiso_maliti
Read more »
Bitcoin is going to $120 000: Standard Chartered - TechCentralBitcoin could reach $50 000 this year and $120 000 by the end of 2024, Standard Chartered said on Monday.
Read more »
Police arrest 1, seize nearly R2m worth of abalone in ConstantiaThe 43-year-old was nabbed over the weekend after police followed up on information about illegal activities at a Constantia residence.
Read more »
Zelensky hails 'brave' Ukraine on 500th day of warPresident Volodymyr Zelensky hailed 'brave' Ukraine on the 500th day of Russia's invasion on Saturday, as the war's toll mounted with six deaths reported in Russian rocket fire.
Read more »
Zelenskyy brings Azovstal commanders back to Ukraine from Turkey - SABC NewsPresident Volodymyr Zelenskiyy brought home from Turkey on Saturday five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year.
Read more »