The Death Toll in Ukraine
We are covering the latest from the war. The largest military cemetery in Kyiv, has become increasingly full. Credit... Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times You’re reading The Morning newsletter. Your daily guide to understanding what’s happening — and why it matters. Hosted by Sam Sifton, for readers in the U.S. and Canada. An astonishing number of Russians and Ukrainians have died, vanished or been wounded during four years of war. Casualties in the conflict are on track to pass two million this spring — about two-thirds of them from Russia. Last year, according to a recent study , Russian casualties were recorded at nearly 35,000 a month. It is a grim accounting, and it is ongoing. With peace talks seemingly at an impasse after last week’s negotiations yielded little more than a prisoner swap , and hostilities between the nations flaring in the region’s brutal winter, I wondered what those numbers looked like on the ground. Wh...
