Kamil Galeyev is a Moscow researcher working for a British research institute, the Wilson Center. More recently, he has been researching the demographics of the Russian army, which may be one of the reasons why the socalled “military special operation” was launched Wladimir Putin it does not have the hopedfor success. That Russia is in a crisis from a demographic point of view is nothing new: Covid has made the situation worse, the federation has lost around 4 million inhabitants.
It is therefore not surprising that the Russian army is headed by the poorest sections of the population, in particular Caucasian and Siberian soldiers, who, among other things, do not fully understand the need for “denazification of Ukraine. Galeev also published a first list of about 150 military personnel of the Russian army who were wounded and treated in Rostov, the city located about a hundred kilometers from the Mariupol metropolitan area.
The list could not be kept confidential due to the children’s parents, but this is a disadvantage for Russia, since this document contains particularly relevant information: the most common first name for more than half of the wounded is Magomed, or the Islamic Mohammed in the Dagestani language. In practice, the army is pulling heavily from the federated Autonomous Republic: located in the Caucasus, it borders Chechnya to the west and the Caspian Sea to the east.