Depends how much you trust the figures.
Some commanders will be reporting their paper soldiers as dead to collect the death benefits.
Some commanders won’t be reporting KIA because they want to keep drawing their pay as long as possible.
The ministry will have increased the number of reported in order to claim and embezzle as much as possible - whilst minimising payouts to families by claiming they are MIA/deserters….
The document leaked from RUS MinFin says that by AUG 28, 361.4B RUB has been paid to families of KIA soldiers, 7.4M per one. Dividing would give 48838 confirmed dead. This does not include those MIA, killed separatists and WIA…..
And they say they need another 271 billion before the end of the year and three times as much for 2023.…
