Observed arrival · 2026-11-08
Silent Crow reads Russia’s death register
An interactive investigation using Russian civil-registry records to map and estimate military deaths associated with the war in Ukraine.
- For
- Readers tracking Russian military deaths and public records
- Worth noticing
- It estimates deaths hidden among records with no stated cause by measuring excess male mortality against ordinary rates, split between front-line and rear areas.
Field notes
The page separates deaths identified through military-action codes or wording, other military deaths, and an estimated share of records with no stated cause. It analyzes when records enter the database as well as death dates, because registration can lag by months; its adjustment uses earlier, fully observed cohorts and is described as a lower bound. The page states that the registry omits wounded people, missing persons, and foreign mercenaries, so its figures do not represent total battlefield losses.
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