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The metric of the war: Deaths.
A little boy blown up by a mine at the beach. A young mother shot in the forehead. A retired teacher killed in her home. Soldiers killing and dying every day by the hundreds. Older people and young people and everyone in between.
A war can be measured by many metrics. Territory won or lost. Geopolitical influence increased or diminished. Treasure acquired or resources depleted. But for the people suffering under the shelling, who hear the whistling of incoming missiles, the crack of gunfire on the streets and the wails of loss out of shattered windows, the death toll is the most telling account of a war.
A little boy blown up by a mine at the beach. A young mother shot in the forehead. A retired teacher killed in her home. Soldiers killing and dying every day by the hundreds. Older people and young people and everyone in between.
A war can be measured by many metrics. Territory won or lost. Geopolitical influence increased or diminished. Treasure acquired or resources depleted. But for the people suffering under the shelling, who hear the whistling of incoming missiles, the crack of gunfire on the streets and the wails of loss out of shattered windows, the death toll is the most telling account of a war.
Death in Ukraine: A Special Report
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Many of the Russians ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin to invade Ukraine beneath the false pretenses of liberating the nation from Nazis usually are not coming house, both. In April, Western nations estimated that Russia had misplaced about 15,000 troopers in Ukraine; on Friday, Ukraine put the estimate at 33,000.
The true toll is unknown, and won’t be coming from Moscow: Its final announcement, on March 25, mentioned {that a} complete of 1,351 Russian troopers had died.
Antoniy, a morgue employee, making ready a physique for burial in Lviv.Credit…Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times
In the months after the invasion started, native information web sites throughout Russia compiled “memory pages” that listed the names of hometown troopers who had died. Then, this month, they deleted them: A court docket dominated that such lists have been state secrets and techniques.
“We apologize,” said the positioning 74.ru in Chelyabinsk in Siberia, “to the mothers and fathers, wives and children, relatives and friends of the servicemen who have died during the special military operation in Ukraine.”
..."Many of the Russians ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin to invade Ukraine beneath the false pretenses of liberating the nation from Nazis usually are not coming house, both. In April, Western nations estimated that Russia had misplaced about 15,000 troopers in Ukraine; on Friday, Ukraine put the estimate at 33,000.
The true toll is unknown, and won’t be coming from Moscow: Its final announcement, on March 25, mentioned {that a} complete of 1,351 Russian troopers had died.
Antoniy, a morgue employee, making ready a physique for burial in Lviv.Credit…Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times
In the months after the invasion started, native information web sites throughout Russia compiled “memory pages” that listed the names of hometown troopers who had died. Then, this month, they deleted them: A court docket dominated that such lists have been state secrets and techniques.
“We apologize,” said the positioning 74.ru in Chelyabinsk in Siberia, “to the mothers and fathers, wives and children, relatives and friends of the servicemen who have died during the special military operation in Ukraine.”
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