Not only is there no war, but obituaries are now banned
The authorities of Khakassia have stopped publishing obituaries about the military who died in the war in Ukraine, sources close to the regional authorities report to Sibir.Realii.
The last obituary about the death of the deputy of the Supreme Council Dmitry Ivanov was published on April 26. According to sources of the publication, the request to refuse publications came from the Ministry of Defense. The reason was the publications of Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, in which the death toll is counted through obituaries.
According to one of the editorial interlocutors, the government press service has stopped publishing data on the soldiers and mercenaries from the Wagner PMC who died in Ukraine, since they are used by the BBC Russian Service and Mediazona to calculate the losses of the Russian army. Open data strongly disagrees with the reports of the Ministry of Defense, which last called the total number of losses in September 2022. Then Sergei Shoigu said that 5,937 Russian soldiers were killed in Ukraine.
On April 26, the government of Khakassia published an obituary from Ukraine for the last time – a message about the death of a deputy of the Supreme Council Dmitry Ivanov, who fought in the PMC Wagner near Bakhmut. On May 18, the head of Khakassia, Valentin Konovalov, presented awards to the families of servicemen whose deaths became known in November 2022 and January 2023. The press service of the government of Khakassia declined to comment.
Journalists of the BBC Russian Service and Mediazona confirmed the death of 25,218 people who fought on the side of Russia. According to open data, at least 135 people from Khakassia died.
At the same time, the BBC Russian Service reports that during the invasion of Ukraine, Russia, according to the most conservative estimates, could lose 50 thousand people dead. The irretrievable losses of Russia, taking into account those who were out of action due to injury or death, can be at least 225 thousand people.
