According to an independent investigation cited by Business Insider, Russian soldiers mobilized to fight in Ukraine die on average just a few months after joining Moscow’s armed forces.

The investigation by the Russian site Important Stories and analysts Conflict Intelligence Team was published on Thursday, a year after President Vladimir Putin announced a decree on “partial mobilization” in Russia.

Investigative journalists and independent analysts have now calculated the approximate “life expectancy” of Russians Putin has called on to fight in the war he launched in February 2022, Europe’s biggest since the end of World War II.

Investigators compiled a list of Russian servicemen who died in Ukraine using obituaries published in local newspapers and messages on social media by their relatives or officials from various regions of Russia.

The results of the investigation show that the average life expectancy of Russian soldiers from the moment of mobilization to the moment of their murder is 4 and a half months.

Russia sent men and their families to die in Ukraine

Other estimates show that 20 percent of Russian soldiers identified as dead in Ukraine died within two months of their deployment, while 12 percent were under the age of 25.

More than half of the mobilized men who died in Ukraine were between the ages of 30 and 45, despite the assurances of the Russian authorities at the time that men and their families would not be sent to the “special operations” zone. President Putin personally gave this assurance.

The investigation also made public the details of the lives and fate of some of the mobilized. For example, 24-year-old Vyacheslav Moiseev from the Perm region was killed on August 25. He was mobilized 3 months after the birth of his son.

In one day, two brothers, Igor and Dmytro Dadanov, died, leaving 4 orphans. Both were from the Republic of Buryatia, one of the Russian regions believed to have suffered the heaviest casualties in the “special military operation”.

Ihor Dadanov was 33 years old – the average age of dead Russian soldiers, established by the new investigation.

HIMARS attack on Makiivka, the biggest disaster for the Russian army

Important stories also note that the HIMARS attack on the Makiivka barracks on New Year’s Eve was the deadliest incident for the Russian military since the beginning of the war.

Moreover, this strike by the Ukrainians caused a wave of horror and anger in Russia, the death toll of the attack is too great for even Russian television to cover.

But shortly after the scale of the disaster became apparent, the Russian military said the soldiers who died near Makiivka during a Ukrainian HIMARS attack were responsible for their own deaths because they had allegedly revealed their position.

“The main cause of the tragedy in Makiivka was the mass use of mobile phones by the staff, despite the ban. This factor allowed the enemy to locate and establish the coordinates of the location of the servicemen for launching a missile strike,” the press service of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow said on January 3.

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