Small surfaces pay the price of the Russian-Ukrainian war

The price of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is paid by national minority regions even greater than average. Journalists identified more than 110,000 soldiers who lost their lives on the side of Russia. Many have been recruited from prison and others were mobilized with a call.

By the end Bear Following a hvg.hu. Although the real number may be much higher, the available data still highlights a clear tendency: it has suffered from ethnically non -Russian majority areas.

Three regions paid the highest price

The highest mortality rate In Tuva province measure where every ten thousand men get 120 dead soldiers. This is followed by Burjaratház 91 and then the Altai Republic with 89 victims. The numbers show a particularly sharp contrast with Moscow, with the same ratio of only 3 people.

Demographers say the difference is no coincidence: Tuva has been one of the poorest and most closed regions of Russia for decades, where social mobility is almost completely absent and young men in this area are more statistically prone to crime.

• In Burfötöld Most of the losses are given by forced soldiers: one in five dead belongs to this category. The number of those who have been forced into war is particularly high compared to the proportion of the local population, and according to human rights organizations, most of the complaints come from abuse of mobilization.

• The Altai in Republic In contrast, they typically tried to fill the teams with volunteers. 47 percent of the losses from here were volunteer soldiers – almost twice for the Russian average. Thus, local authorities apparently used coercive means than in other regions.

As a comparison in Moscow, the structure of losses is much more mixed: 10 percent of the dead were prisoners, 26 percent volunteer, 15 percent mobilized and 20 percent professional soldier.

The independent estimated Russia’s total military loss, including the wounded, missing and prisoners of war, can range from 600 thousand up to 1 million. The Russian leadership rarely publishes official data, so the aggregates based on Western and Ukrainian sources are only estimates.