The morbid cost of Putin's invasion for all to see: Satellite images show how ... trends now
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New satellite images have revealed how cemeteries holding the remains of Russian troops have massively expanded since the nation invaded Ukraine.
The snaps, taken by private satellite company Maxar Technologies, show the final resting places for many of Russia's elite military units, including the Wagner Mercenary group, have multiplied in size.
Images of just one section of Tula Cemetery in Moscow show that the number of graves dug quadrupled between October 2021 and April 2023.
Elsewhere in Moscow, the Bogorodskoye cemetery has seemingly tripled in size, with another section being added in the same time period.
The new images starkly visualise the sheer number of Russian soldiers who have died fighting Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
A satellite image shows an overview of Bogorodskoye cemetery, near Ryaza
A satellite image shows an overview of Blyzhnie cemetery, near Feodosiya
A satellite image shows an overview of Mikhaylovsk cemetery, near Stavropol
While the Kremlin doesn't publish official stats on the number of troops who have been killed during the invasion of Ukraine, there have been wildly varying estimates.
The UK's MoD believed up to 70,000 Russian soldiers have died. Independent media outlets Mediazona and Meduza, meanwhile, believe that up to 88,000 soldiers died at the end of 2023.
Their estimate was based on public obituaries and
