In the past week, "Idel.Realii" identified the names of another 526 natives of the Volga region who died in the war in Ukraine. Of these, 130 are from Tatarstan.

      As of the morning of May 18, at least 55,000 people have died from the regions of the Volga Federal District (plus Astrakhan region). From May 11 to May 17, "Idel.Realii" identified the names of 526 military personnel from 15 regions of the Volga who died in the war in Ukraine. Thus, as of the morning of May 18, at least 55,000 people have died from the regions of the Volga Federal District (plus Astrakhan region). The number of identified names of the deceased over the week by region: Tatarstan — 130 people; Ulyanovsk region — 98 people; Bashkortostan — 70 people; Saratov region — 49 people; Perm Krai — 35 people; Samara region — 28 people; Udmurtia — 25 people; Astrakhan region — 20 people; Kirov region — 17 people; Chuvashia — 17 people; Nizhny Novgorod region — 14 people; Orenburg region — 8 people; Mordovia — 6 people; Mari El — 5 people; Penza region — 4 people. Bashkortostan remains the leader in the total number of identified deceased: the war has claimed the lives of at least 9,909 military personnel from the republic. Next on the list is Tatarstan with 8,828 and Perm Krai with 5,857 names. The lowest losses among the regions of the Volga to date have been suffered by Mari El and Mordovia — 1,369 and 713 respectively. Journalists from "Mediazona" together with the "Russian Service of the BBC" and a team of volunteers have identified the names of 217,808 Russian servicemen who died in the war against Ukraine as of May 9. Bashkortostan remains the leader among all regions of Russia in terms of confirmed losses. Earlier, the "Russian Service of the BBC" calculated that confirmed losses in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan already exceed all Soviet losses during the 10-year war in Afghanistan by 20% (according to official data, just over 15,000 people died there). Russia's losses over a year of war with Ukraine have exceeded the losses of the USSR and Russia in all wars after World War II combined. Moscow and Kyiv generally do not publicly disclose losses in the war in Ukraine, mainly reporting on the enemy's losses. The parties to military conflicts tend to exaggerate their successes and downplay their failures. Journalistic research is one of the most important independent assessments of the number of dead. The Russian Ministry of Defense last reported on losses on the day mobilization began — September 21, 2022. According to the then head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, the losses amounted to 5,937 people. "Idel.Realii" conducts its own count of deceased military personnel and volunteers from the regions of the Volga. This list includes only those whose deaths have been recognized in one way or another by the Russian side, relatives of the deceased, or educational or other public institutions. The actual figures may be significantly higher. Subscribe to our channel on Telegram.