Satellite Photos Show Russian Military Cemetaries Have Quadrupled In Size

And there's plenty of room to grow...JL 

Perkin Amalaraj reports in themailonline.com:

The final resting places for many of Russia's  military units, including the Wagner group, have multiplied in size. Images of just one section of Tula Cemetery in Moscow show that the number of graves dug quadrupled between October 2021 and April 2023. Elsewhere in Moscow, the Bogorodskoye cemetery has seemingly tripled in size, with another section being added in the same time period. The new images starkly visualise the sheer number of Russian soldiers who have died fighting Putin's invasion of Ukraine. A quarter of Russian soldiers killed come from regular military units, another quarter are from volunteer corps and the rest are convicts.

New satellite images have revealed how cemeteries holding the remains of Russian troops have massively expanded since the nation invaded Ukraine. 

The snaps, taken by private satellite company Maxar Technologies, show the final resting places for many of Russia's elite military units, including the Wagner Mercenary group, have multiplied in size. 

Images of just one section of Tula Cemetery in Moscow show that the number of graves dug quadrupled between October 2021 and April 2023.

Elsewhere in Moscow, the Bogorodskoye cemetery has seemingly tripled in size, with another section being added in the same time period. 

The new images starkly visualise the sheer number of Russian soldiers who have died fighting Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 

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While the Kremlin doesn't publish official stats on the number of troops who have been killed during the invasion of Ukraine, there have been wildly varying estimates. 

The UK's MoD believed up to 70,000 Russian soldiers have died. Independent media outlets Mediazona and Meduza, meanwhile, believe that up to 88,000 soldiers died at the end of 2023. 

Their estimate was based on public obituaries and official inheritance records. 

But the US believes the figure could be as high as 120,000, while Ukraine claimed  last month that up to 180,000 had died. 

Research by The Economist claimed that a quarter of Russian soldiers killed come from normal militart units, another quarter are from volunteer corps and the rest are convicts who have been offered a commuted sentence in exchange for a stint on the front lines. 

While Russia has suffered staggering losses, Ukrainian troops and allies have also suffered hugely. 

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A satellite image shows an overview of Lazarus cemetery, near Alabino

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A satellite image shows an overview of Bakinskaya cemetery

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A satellite image shows an overview of Tula cemetery