More than 63,000 names appear in public sources. Journalists investigated obituaries, monuments in cemeteries and graves. Actual losses are not always included in authoritative statistics. Military experts propose that this is only 50 to 75 % of the actual losses suffered by the Russians in the "special operation". Military data says 90 to 110 1000 dead. And they're not definitive either, due to the fact that they'll grow if you number the number of dead people recruited from conquered Donetsk and Luhansk regions who aren't included in the statistics. And here comes the work of journalists. They looked into missing persons reports and obituary reports. On this basis, they estimation Donbas units lost 20–23 500 men. This means that the full number of deaths on the Russian side ranges from 110 220 to 138 325 soldiers.
