title: Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data
abstract: <b>Objective</b>: This paper investigates ethnic and regional disparities in fatality rates in the Russian military in 2022‒2023 during the war in Ukraine. <b>Methods</b>: The analysis uses a new crowdsourced dataset comprising the names of over 20,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine between February 2022 and April 2023. This dataset was compiled by a team of volunteers who gathered information from social media and other accessible sources. The dataset is incomplete and therefore the finding
journal: Demographic Research