By the end of 2025, at least 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine, a new investigation has found . The death tally was compiled by two exiled Russian publications, Mediazona and Meduza, and released on May 9 to coincide with Russia’s national holiday marking victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. The figure was arrived at using a database Mediazona maintains with the BBC Russian Service, which draws on publicly reported deaths, including local reports, notices and social media posts by relatives. The list now contains 261,000 names of Russian...