Thread by @failure1991

So time for something a little different. Russian losses /1

The Twitter algorithm is passing me things I normally don't read much and I came across "Killed in Ukraine." It appears to be 1:1 to Mediazona where they trawl everything they possibly can in Russian social media to look for KIA officers. /2x.com/KilledInUkraine

Currently they have 4,258 individual names of which 605 are other ranks. They update more frequently than Mediazona so it will be interesting to see what the result is when they update next /3

Nevertheless once you subtract about 10% from KIU's count you get essentially the same count mediazona has and with some possible discrepancies being that maybe Mediazona does not count men promoted from the ranks /4

I decided though to look at one of their videos showing the war cemetery in Vladivostok. I count 44 across and 5 deep.

What does this mean? /5

https://x.com/KilledInUkraine/status/1801569676272583076

Per Mediazona's most recent count the Primorsky Krai's toll of war dead is 991. Which you can see here:

/6zona.media/casualties

Vladivostok is about 1/3 of the Primorsky Krai's population so this seems to confirm the Mediazona count /7

So I can only confirm what Armchair Warlord said here and others have said elsewhere /8

https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1802428521060487520

Mediazona is looking for absolutely anything and everyone. What it can find is basically what can be found. There is no hidden mountain of Russian war dead. While not officially advertised, the cost of war, being on Russian social media, is not suppressed /9

It is also therefore high, about 56,000 KIA in over two years of fighting. So when anyone asks why the Russians are willing to negotiate or doubts it, consider the cost /10

Equally please consider that Lvov - which is only 1/6 bigger than Vladivostok and has been relatively insulated from the war had to do this for its war cemetery last year /11economist.com/europe/2023/08…

If Russia's toll is heavy, Ukraine's is something - as I have covered elsewhere - I don't think people can begin to imagine /END