Most of the fallen Russian soldiers were not on the front line in Ukraine for even five months, the investigative portal Važnyje istorii reported. He reviewed information about 3,000 Russians killed and called to arms under the mobilization law last September, whose deaths were reported in open sources. The portal pointed out that the figure of 3,000 dead does not correspond to the actual number of victims in the mobilized group, which may be higher. Russia has not reported the number of soldiers killed for months. Overall, the Russian military has called up about 300,000 people, according to Moscow.

He was among the dead Vadim Bulatov, 23, from the Chelyabinsk region, Russia, who died on October 8, nine days after being drafted into the army. He had called his family earlier to tell them his unit was leaving for Kherson in southern Ukraine. “You see, he died on the front lines. He had no training. He didn’t even look and he was already there.” said his brother.

According to the Institute for War Studies, the situation near Orichivu in the Zaporozhye region is “dynamic”. A Ukrainian counteroffensive is currently underway there, which is likely to grow rapidly. Now the Ukrainians had to advance to the village of Verbove.

According to the TASS agency, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it destroyed eight Ukrainian drones located in the northwestern part of the Black Sea near the occupied Crimea, as well as in the Kursk and Bryansk regions.

Explosions were reportedly heard in Kursk, Russia, in the morning.

This is what the hotel in Odessa looked like before the shooting.

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According to the investigative portal, such rapid deaths are not unusual among those mobilized. Every fifth person on the list of the dead spent less than two months on the front line. On average, the people on the list died after about four months and two weeks. In this list of dead, there are only four people who were mobilized and survived more than 11 months on the front line.

The intensity of fighting in the fall of 2022 is also having a negative impact on the speed of death of mobilized people, according to analysts from the investigative organization Conflict Intelligence. Team. According to him, some conscripts ended up in a “meat grinder” near the cities of Svatove and Kreminna in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. where Russian troops had to react quickly to the Ukrainian breakthrough.

According to the portal, the mobilization mostly attacks men over 30 years old. More than half of the dead were aged between 30 and 45 years. The oldest person to die on the list was 62 years old.