The BBC’s Russian service, along with the Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, confirmed on April 5 the identities of more than 50,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war. The research, using open-source analysis, only cites those confirmed as being killed, thus almost certainly undercounting the real total. The BBC estimated the true figure likely surpasses 100,000. The figure also does not include soldiers from Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. According to the BBC’s research, around 23,400 soldiers from Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luha…