INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Monday, citing a database of military medical records obtained from a Russian military
his upper right thigh and discharged five weeks later
shooting remain unclear, RFE/RL said.Kirillov and his assistant were killed in mid-December when a bomb went off outside his apartment
building in southeastern Moscow
165,000 servicemen hospitalized in Russian Defense Ministry facilities between February 2022 and mid-June 2024
hospitalizations was leaked to the news outlet by Sergeant Alexei Zhilyayev, a military evacuation unit commander seeking political asylum
Zhilyayev said the database is routinely circulated via email to military commands to track personnel.Russian military medics are pressured
to downplay injury severity to return soldiers to combat, according to Zhilyayev
However, journalists believe the true number of Russian military deaths is about twice that figure.
