{"id":1277548,"date":"2025-12-27T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1277548"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:31:34","slug":"journalists-identify-over-158-000-russian-soldiers-killed-in-war-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/journalists-identify-over-158-000-russian-soldiers-killed-in-war-against-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Identify Over 158,000 Russian Soldiers Killed in War Against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Journalists have confirmed the identities of <strong>158,143 Russian military personnel<\/strong> killed since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a joint investigation by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/russian\/articles\/c7vm484qj41o\">BBC Russian Service<\/a><\/strong>, based on open-source data,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UATV English<\/a>\u00a0informs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least <strong>33,203 Russian soldiers were killed in 2025<\/strong>, the investigation says. While this figure is officially lower than in <strong>2024<\/strong>, when journalists recorded <strong>64,950 deaths<\/strong>, new data is still emerging, and final estimates for 2025 will take several more months to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already, journalists note that <strong>40% more obituaries were published in 2025<\/strong> compared to last year. These obituaries do not necessarily represent fully verified losses, as some will be filtered out during verification. Nevertheless, <strong>2025 is likely to become the deadliest year for the Russian army<\/strong>, despite ongoing diplomatic talks about a possible peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>average age of Russian soldiers killed in 2025 was 40<\/strong>, which is <strong>15 years higher than in the first year of the invasion<\/strong> and <strong>two years higher than in 2024<\/strong>. The increase is especially notable among volunteers, where deaths most often involve men aged <strong>45\u201347<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data also shows that military contracts are most commonly signed by residents of <strong>small towns and rural areas<\/strong>, where stable, well-paid jobs are scarce. In such regions, pressure and recruitment efforts by local authorities are often significantly stronger than in major cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, journalists had identified <strong>155,368 Russian soldiers killed<\/strong>, about <strong>one-third of whom were volunteers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists have confirmed the identities of 158,143 Russian military personnel killed since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1277550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1277548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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