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More soldiers from Tatarstan, Bashkortostan die in Russia's war on Ukraine than any other region

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RFE / RL 's Tatar-Bashkir Service has added 575 names to its list of dead soldiers from Tatarstan and Bashkortostan .

The reason for the recent increase is unclear, but it comes two years after President Vladimir Putin stunned the country by announcing a "partial" mobilization that called up some 300,000 men to fight.

Overall, Russian casualties -- killed or wounded in action -- are believed to exceed 500,000 according to Western estimates.

BBC Russian / Mediazona project tracks war deaths by monitoring funeral notices and other open-source data.

In the early phases of the war, the average Russian war death was a contract soldier in his early 20s .

Now, typical deaths are volunteers in their 40s, 50s , and even 60s , "most often without military experience or specialized training".