Using hull losses to compare safety of aircraft types is a completely misleading
True but sometimes you don't have anything else. The best aircraft accident statistics specifically exclude aircraft made in CIS/USSR because of lack of operational data. So you can take hull losses which are available and adjust for utilization which was always particularly low in CIS/USSR.
I am quoting hulls losses per million departures
I claim that whatever departures you are using for Tu-154 is a totally unreliable number.