INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least 165 graves of Russian soldiers have been uncovered in the Arctic city of Murmansk, a significantly higher death figure than local
authorities have publicly acknowledged, opposition activist Violetta Grudina said Wednesday.Grudina, an exiled former regional coordinator
Chibis has so far confirmed the deaths of only 40 soldiers from the region since the start of the war
However, Grudina said Chibis stopped updating the official military death toll earlier this year and even deleted his previous social media
She noted that the 165 graves she documented did not account for burials in other cemeteries across the wider Murmansk region.An independent
media tally based on open-source information estimates that 317 soldiers from Murmansk have died in Ukraine since Russia invaded Ukraine in
releasing official figures on its troop losses in September 2022.
