INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
soldiers killed in the strike, the outlet said.Another 16 soldiers who were at the makeshift barracks in the eastern Ukrainian town at the
since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, while blaming the soldiers for inadvertently giving away their location to Ukrainian
26, less than a week before the Ukrainian attack.Funerals for the mobilized soldiers in Makiivka began on Jan
7 and continued over the following days.Overall, BBC Russian said more than 12,200 soldiers have been confirmed killed in the 11 months
since they were ordered to invade Ukraine.The Russian military last updated its death toll for the war in Ukraine in September 2022, when it
said fewer than 6,000 soldiers had been killed.BBC Russian, in cooperation with the independent Mediazona news website, uses official
