EXCLUSIVE: Expanding Russian military cemeteries suggest huge troop losses in Ukraine

by TheTelegraph

37 comments
  1. Good, there’s still plenty of usable space. It’ll be needed !

    Slava Ukraini !

  2. Never would have guessed they actually recovered enough bodies to make a cemetery.

  3. Just these 3 additional fields are ~2.500 graves.
    (~40 top to bottom and ~30, ~15, ~20 (visible) left to right).
    Or about 3-4 days of Russian losses.

  4. What an impressive and graphic picture. You can’t hide this kind of thing from your citizen slaves. It’s on the ground and in their face. This is less than two years of dead.

  5. The part you see in the 2021 picture contains roughly 650 graves.

    In the April 2023 picture, an area approximately four times the size of the original area has been added.

    This means that in this cemetery alone about 2000 graves have been added in the 19 months since Oct 21.

    However, in April 2023, the full scale invasion of Ukraine had “only” been going on for 14 months, so that’s 142 new graves per month.

  6. With views like that i bet they will try and hide it somehow from now .

  7. I think the Russian troop losses in Ukraine isn’t suprising anyone. For every trooper returned to Russia there is maybe 10? 20? 30? that just rot down/burn/vapourise. In the years to come Russian women will be waiting for the return of their partners in vain. They ain’t coming back. Putrid will not give a rat’s ass and nor will mainstream Russian society because Russia is a land populated by a wealthy elite who couldn’t give a monkey’s cuss about the outer reaches of the federation. The peasants are a commodity. They have no value. When they are used up, Putrid will offer money to North Koreans, Iranians…anyone….who will fight for money. He is scum, he is a disease, a psychopath and mafioso.

  8. From Wikipedia:

    “Tula is the largest city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast in Russia, located 193 kilometers (120 mi) south of Moscow… At the 2010 census, Tula had a population of 501,169, an increase from 481,216 in 2002.”

  9. These cemeteries contain far more bodies than you realize if WWI teaches us anything. It’s easier to dig a common grave and dump everyone in, then put orderly tombstones on top to imply individual graves than it is to bury everyone individually. I’d be interested in knowing how close together those grave markers are.

  10. “No no no, numbers much lower. Each soldier gets 20 headstones to represent their bravery for their beloved Russia” K.Remlin

  11. Geolocated 54.1440, 37.661
    Judging the tanks at the entrance this is a military cemetery indeed.

    Half of the graves are without grass, so these got dug in the months October 2022 to April 2023.
    An estimated 2 x 35 x 35 is 2450 graves over 6 months.

    Greater Tula got half a million inhabitants. At a life expectancy of 60 years that’s 700 deaths a month.
    Even in peacetime we can expect 4200 graves over 6 months.

    So if Putin gets his wicked way then the new Russian life expectancy will be down to 40 years.

  12. The Google maps image of the cemetery has the bottom left field filling in. You can clearly see tanks at the entrance too, it’s definitely a soldier’s cemetery.

  13. Surprise they’re putting that much effort into burying their dead

  14. Rasputin warned the tsarina that the “villages were growing empty” not long before the revolution started

  15. 80 % of them will lay in Ukraine forever without a tombstone.

  16. Not counting the ones that are left to decompose as fertilizer.

  17. Well they still didnt fill the bottom half so lets make it so.

  18. I certainly hope the citizens of Russia have access to those photos.

  19. You can’t call that a cemetery. That’s a dump, but it doesn’t surprise me thinking of russian standards and how they treat their soldiers.

  20. Someone should tell them you can bury more per square ft in that space, if they put them vertically and close together. At this rate they will run out of space and need to enlarge it again.

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