Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Russian government is forecasting that over 100,000 of its soldiers will have died by the end of 2024. The draft budget of the Social Fund of Russia for the next year has enabled independent media to calculate the government's projections for its war losses. ⬇️

3/ Funding for these monthly payments has been increased to 16.335 billion rubles ($167.7 mi), an increase of 3.2 billion rubles ($32.8 m) over 2023. This amounts to enough money to pay monthly compensation for 102,700 people killed in service or who died from their wounds.

3/ Funding for these monthly payments has been increased to 16.335 billion rubles ($167.7 mi), an increase of 3.2 billion rubles ($32.8 m) over 2023. This amounts to enough money to pay monthly compensation for 102,700 people killed in service or who died from their wounds.

4/ 9.987 billion rubles ($102.5 m) is also being allocated for monthly payments to the families of the wounded who received illnesses in service, shell shock and disability – an increase of almost 1 billion rubles ($10.2 m) over the figure for 2023.

5/ The amount of money being spent on compensating the dead and wounded is swamping other social expenditures. In the Moscow region alone, such payments will be comparable to the total spent on education and healthcare.

6/ Meduza and Mediazona calculated that by the end of May 2023 that 47,000 Russian soldiers could be confirmed as having died in the war. At the rate of growth that they recorded, the figure of 100,000 could be reached by the middle of 2024.

7/ However, the true figure is certainly far higher, as it excludes those deemed missing in action. Soldiers have spoken on multiple occasions of large numbers of dead and wounded being abandoned on the battlefield and subsequently being declared missing.

8/ There have also been claims that the Russian government prefers to declare soldiers missing rather than dead because it then does not have to make compensation payments to relatives. /end

Source:
pointmedia.io/story/6527cfd0…