Not even Ukraine thinks it has killed 700,000 Russians. The Kyiv Post article claims over 700,000 casualties. Most of those casualties don’t need a grave.

It’s a bit misleading to put that number in the headline. You might normally think “losses” could mean casualties, but put next to “grave” it implies dead.

A 20-page guide? It takes 20 pages to tell them to dig a big trench, drop in the bodies, cover them with lime and put the dirt back on top?

0.5% of their population

They should toss in Putin.

These aren’t probably news by itself, these were news when these laws and guidelines themselves appeared around 2021 when it was suggested by everyone but wasn’t clear if Russia starts things and it was used as a proof it would. I’m yet to hear this specific law getting used though, and article kinda shoulders that.

The Kremlin has begun distributing an updated instruction manual to military units engaged in its war in Ukraine on the preparation and maintenance of mass graves.

That contradicts what written on the cover - last paragraph dedicates it to (probably) law students becoming candidates of science, a step before becoming doctors and after getting bachelor’s and master’s degree. But I suppose it’s formal and doesn’t mean much. I just wonder who the fuck would waste small amount of hours at that level of education on that niche subject that no one but lawyers specified in military cases gonna use. As a practical guide with all the beaurocratic measures to dig graves in the legal, specific way - yeah, they are mostly needed on the frontlines. But I have my doubts anyone would care to do such things by the book and am surprised there’s no moss-covered standard from the soviet 70s to cover that like it usually happens.

Those aren’t deaths, it includes injured. The death count is surprisingly low, like 70,000 or something like that