Data shows how many Russians have died in Ukraine

The exact death toll among Russian forces is a closely-guarded secret (AP)

Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead.

Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tubingen University, have used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s most closely-guarded secrets – the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.