These figures coincide with the Ukrainian data on the losses of the Russian Federation at that time.
Despite the fact that the Ukrainian side claims that more than 16,000 Russian servicemen have been killed on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense today announced for the second time in 30 days of a full-scale war that 1,351 servicemen lost in the war against Ukraine . However, according to the international volunteer community InformNapalm, in the first week of the war in Russia alone, more than 5,000 awards were given to the military with the postscript “posthumously”.
Investigative journalists note that all those killed in Ukraine receive the posthumous Order of Courage. Sometimes this Order is awarded to severely wounded senior officers and individual soldiers for victory, but these are isolated cases.
Some senior officers are given the Star of the Hero of Russia for severe injuries or posthumously. Thus, the “hero” was Denis Shishov, the commander of the 11th Infantry Division of the DShBr VAT, who was wounded during the storming of Kakhovka. His “feat” was on February 25, and news of the award came only two weeks later.
Investigators point out that some Russian soldiers or journalists have published photos of award documents, where you can see the numbers of awards and the day of signing the award order.
“It is immediately obvious that a large number of awards relate to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation signed on March 3 – about a week after the start of a full-scale war against Ukraine. That is, this list of awardees includes those who died in the first days. It was on this day that the Russians first reported their losses, the investigation said.
The minimum number of the “posthumous” “Order of Courage” by order of March 3, 2022, which could be found by journalists, 78487, and the maximum 83281.
“The difference between them is 4,794 orders. This is a very general assessment, because we find new numbers every day, and these figures will be adjusted to increase Russian awards by order of March 3. Most awards for this day were issued posthumously,” – said journalists.
The death toll is roughly the same as the data released by Ukraine on March 2, which claimed Russian casualties at 5,840 in the first week of the war.
At the same time, according to Western intelligence, about 1,000 Russian soldiers die or are injured in Ukraine every day . At the same time, Russia has already used 75% of its combat-ready forces in Ukraine, of which about a third are no longer combat-ready.
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