INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
authorities have heavily promoted military recruitment since 2023, offering high salaries as a key incentive
In fall 2022, Putin ordered a partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists to offset battlefield losses in Ukraine.The Defense Ministry has
not updated its official casualty count since then, when it claimed just under 6,000 deaths in the first seven months of the full-scale
first Russian region to publicly disclose its death toll in Ukraine
Authorities there said more than 5,000 soldiers from the region have been killed.
