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About exchanges of the dead
2025-04-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of lost_armour

See the charts at the link. Red is for Russia and Blue is for Ukraine. It falls in line with my contention that Russian irretrievable losses from the war are at least an order of magnitude lower than Ukraine and its western procurers claim.

[ColonelCassad] In connection with the intensified topic of another exchange of bodies, the group for calculating the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the LOSTARMOUR project offers an overview of this issue for the entire period of the SVO.

We know that at least 61 exchanges were made in total, the earliest on 05/07/2022, of which we have information on 50.

Initially, the exchanges were carried out as equivalent by analogy with prisoners, later shifting towards the "all for all" scheme, since there is no benefit from storing enemy bodies.

In 2023, there is some shift in the number of bodies transferred towards dead Russian soldiers, especially during the summer Ukrainian "counteroffensive".

Later, especially since the summer of 2024, there is a sharp increase in the number of bodies transferred to Ukraine.

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