Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 236,066 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine. Since the media outlets' last update in mid-July, the names of 2,867 Russian soldiers have been added to the list of casualties. In February, he said that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been officially confirmed killed on the battlefield. The true scale of military losses is difficult to determine because neither Ukraine nor Russia discloses complete figures. At its current rate, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 8 that Russian forces lose about 30,000 troops per month.