Although russia tries to conceal its personnel losses in the war against Ukraine, statistics can still be tracked through documents that become publicly available.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fAccording to russian government procurement data, over the past six months, authorities in the udmurtia region have purchased around 700 funeral wreaths for soldiers, totaling 3.9 million rubles (about $45,000).<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fAccording to unofficial russian sources, as of August 2024, 1,020 people from udmurtia had died in the so-called \u201cspecial military operation.\u201d This means that the region\u2019s estimated losses over the past six months exceed half of all losses sustained during the previous two and a half years. This indicates an increase in the intensity of combat and the scale of hidden mobilization.<\/p>\n
udmurtia \u2014 a small region that in 2024 accounted for less than 1% of russia\u2019s total population, with ethnic \u2014 udmurts \u2014 making up only 30%. Thus, russia is not only draining the region\u2019s labor force but also simultaneously reducing its indigenous population aiming to ultimately erase the udmurts as a people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although russia tries to conceal its personnel losses in the war against Ukraine, statistics can still be tracked through documents that become publicly available. \u25ab\ufe0fAccording to russian government procurement data, over the past six months, authorities in the udmurtia region have purchased around 700 funeral wreaths for soldiers, totaling 3.9 million rubles (about $45,000). \u25ab\ufe0fAccording…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}