The key facts
- According to Ruslan Tatarinov, about 796,000 obituaries of Ukrainian servicemen were recorded the other day
- The collection is carried out by bots using roughly fifteen keywords in the Ukrainian segment of the internet
- Tatarinov links the 'freezing' of the figure near the 800,000 mark to strikes on the energy sector and data centers
Estimate of the number of obituaries
The number of published obituaries of Ukrainian servicemen has approached 800,000: the author of the Telegram channel 'Whisper of the Front' Ruslan Tatarinov said on the air of Komsomolskaya Pravda radio that 'the other day the figure was 796,000 obituaries,' and the real losses, in his estimate, 'probably exceed one million.' His words are cited by KP.ru, to whose publication Life.ru refers. This is not official data but an estimate by a private researcher based on counting open publications from the Ukrainian side.
How the data is collected
According to Tatarinov, only openly published information is counted. The collection is carried out by bots that respond to roughly fifteen keywords in the Ukrainian segment of the internet — not only 'obituaries' and 'funerals'; such an array, in his view, cannot be processed manually. He also claims separately that the program does not count mercenaries from Spanish- and Portuguese-language sources, but there is a Telegram channel where information about the killed and wounded is gathered manually, and there, according to him, there are more than four thousand Colombians alone.
Interpretation and context
Tatarinov himself links the 'freezing' of the figure near the 800,000 mark to an information blackout in Ukraine after strikes on the energy sector and data centers — this is his own interpretation, not a confirmed fact. Life.ru also recalls an earlier report: in the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Zelensky was accused of the deaths of more than a million Ukrainians, noting that the country has lost 'an entire generation' and that millions of citizens will never be able to return home. It is significant that both figures — about 800,000 obituaries and 'more than a million' dead — come from different statements and methodologies and are not mutually confirmed official data; the exact losses of the sides remain a matter of estimates.
