A very interesting article about missing soldiers in the Russian army based on requests submitted by commanders.
This shows the enormous scale of missing soldiers. Russian courts flooded with 20,000 missing or dead claims in 2024
And this applies to only a few military units.
This shows the enormous scale of missing soldiers. Russian courts flooded with 20,000 missing or dead claims in 2024
And this applies to only a few military units.
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Most of these claims were filed by commanders
Since the beginning of the war, the city court in Klintsy 488th Motorised Rifle Regiment) alone has already received more than two hundred such lawsuits
The relatives of “missing” servicemen are left with almost no support from the state
In 2022, the number of such claims was no different from the pre-war level: about 8,000 per year across Russia.