How long does it take for a mobilized Russian to die on average – the media published the results of a study
The mobilized Russians who arrived at the front in Ukraine during last year’s autumn campaign died on average after 4.5 months of service. According to the Russian investigative project “Important Stories” in cooperation with the volunteer movement Conflict Intelligence Team, one in five of them did not live at the front for two months.
Last year, as a result of Putin’s “partial mobilization,” more than 300,000 people were mobilized. Russians. Every fifth of them died less than two months after receiving a call, and on average they died in 4.5 months during the war.
According to the publication, the intensity of hostilities affected the life expectancy after mobilization and sending to the front. The largest losses were in the fall of 2022 and spring of 2023.
“Some of them were already in the meat grinder in the area of Svatove and Kreminna in the fall, where [the Russian military leadership] had to urgently close the [Ukrainian army] breakthrough. At the beginning, [the mobilized] were filling in the holes to immediately prevent the collapse of the front, to saturate it with manpower. The record from the agenda to the grave was just a few days,” the CIT explained.
Instead, only a few survived more than 11 months after mobilization. The publication counted less than a dozen of them.
Most of the Russian mobilized were between the ages of 30 and 45, although there were exceptions at the age of 19 or 62. In general, every tenth dead Russian mobilized was under the age of 25.
