When Russian invaded Ukraine, the BBC and its partners began painstakingly verifying and counting as many deaths as possible.

We identified more than 25,000 named individuals - people we know to have died - setting a bare minimum for Russia's total losses.

The count provides hard evidence of the war's impact on Russian forces. But it has also given answers to grieving families. Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them.

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