INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Around 150 soldiers from a Siberian region with one of the highest military death tolls in the Ukraine war have refused deployment, a
prominent activist has said.The men returned home to the republic of Buryatia over the weekend after their wives pleaded for their return in
has the highest officially confirmed number of casualties in the invasion.Open-source data collected by the independent investigative outlet
iStories has verified the deaths of more than 200 Buryat soldiers out of nearly 4,500 Russians killed in Ukraine.The Russian government
hasn't updated its official death toll in Ukraine since March, when it reported 1,351 soldiers killed.
