1/ A town in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan unveiled a war memorial last year for local men who died in the war in Ukraine. Only six months later, it has already nearly doubled in size, with nearly 48 times more war dead than in Afghanistan and Chechnya combined. ⬇️
2/ In September 2025, the town of Birsk (population 44,611) unveiled a memorial to the 'defenders of the Fatherland', commemorating the casualties of the wars in Afghanistan (3 local men), Chechnya (4 men), and Ukraine (188 people at that time).
3/ Additional steles for another 140 casualties are now being added to the memorial, bringing the total to 328 local people killed in Ukraine. Bashkortostan has suffered disproportionately high casualties in the war in Ukraine, with the highest losses of any republic or region.
4/ Figures compiled by Mediazona in November 2025 showed that Bashkortostan had sustained at least 7,643 people killed in Ukraine, far more than Moscow despite the capital having three times the population.
5/ This highlights how unevenly the burdens of the war have been distributed across Russia. Relatively larger numbers of people have been recruited from poorer regions such as Bashkortostan than from wealthy regions such as Moscow or St Petersburg. /end
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