According to the outlets, the figure was compiled from obituaries, death notices, information on graves, and other public information, such as official reports.
The report comes as Russia continues to send troops into high casualty, head-on, 'meat grinder' assaults on Ukrainian positions to seize more territory in east Ukraine.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine release official casualty figures, but Western intelligence estimates cited by The Wall Street Journal in September said that as many as 200,000 Russian troops may've been killed.
The BBC said that of the deaths it recorded, 13,781 were volunteers, making up about 20% of the total, indicating a significant human cost in the conflict.
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