title: Ethnic and regional inequalities in the Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data
abstract: Objectives: This paper investigates ethnic and regional disparities in fatality rates in the Russian military during the 2022-23 war in Ukraine.Methods: The analysis uses a new crowdsourced data set comprising the names of over 20,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine between February 2022 and April 2023. This data set was compiled by a team of volunteers who gathered information from social media and other accessible sources. The data set is incomplete and therefore the findings reported in th