Russian state media can tell you, almost to the person, how many Russians bears have killed this year. RIA Novosti counted 26 by mid-October. The tally has since reached 29.
Ask the same state how many of its soldiers have died in Ukraine, and the last official answer is 5,937. That was September 2022. Mediazona and the BBC’s Russian service have since put names to 285,023.
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