Obviously the numbers are all over the place, not least because Russia leaves their wounded for dead.Russia’s own figures are higher that what the US thought to be honest. One of there news shows did an audit of obituaries on social media and it’s was higher ( or very close ) than Ukraine s figures.
The BBC have been doing a scour of social media and official records and had 100% confirmed around 45,000 dead the other day, but obviously it’s far higher than that.
The NY Times quoted the Pentagon last month at 120k Russian dead and 70k Ukrainian.
It’ll be interesting to see what they expect from an audit trail. I’d bet most of it is tracked to the nth degree as it is!
They don’t actually care about audit trail, they want to drop support.