INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
investigative outlet IStories and the war monitoring project Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) reported Thursday, citing publicly available
Vladimir Putin announced a "partial" mobilization last September.However, the two outlets stressed that the true death toll among mobilized
of soldiers who chose to speak publicly.Only four of the mobilized reservists who died in the conflict lasted more than 11 months before
Russian Defense Ministry last updated its soldier death toll in September 2022, placing the figure at under 6,000 killed.Western
intelligence documents leaked earlier this year put the actual number closer to 110,00 Russian soldiers wounded and killed by February
2023.Since announcing a "partial" mobilization of 300,000 reservists on Sept
21, 2022, Russian authorities have digitized military records and tightened criminal punishment for draft evasion, as some observers have
speculated that the Kremlin is preparing for a new draft campaign.Yet the first wave of mobilization initiated last year is technically
