INDEPENDENT | Published December 5, 2024
Anna Tsivilyova, the reported daughter of Putin’s cousin, estimates at least 50,000 losses
A family member of Russian president Vladimir Putin accidentally revealed what is likely a confidential tally of the appeals by relatives of soldiers who submitted DNA samples.
Anna Tsivilyova, the daughter of Mr Putin’s cousin and a deputy defence minister, said the government received tens of thousands of appeals from relatives trying to trace soldiers, dead or missing, through DNA samples.
Ms Tsivilyova said in a video, published by the independent Astra Telegram channel, the ministry received 48,000 requests from relatives of Russian troops.
Russia and Ukraine have not officially published a tally of their respective military losses of personnel in the nearly three-year-old war and treat the figure as a state secret.
Western intelligence sources estimate the number of Russian dead to be as high as 200,000, with 400,000 wounded.
She was seen talking to the lawmakers in a video published on Tuesday where she said: “The Ministry of Internal Affairs takes [DNA] absolutely free of charge at their own expense, and enters into its database all the relatives who have applied to us. I’ve already said 48,000.”
She was asked, moments later, by defence committee chief Andrei Kartapolov to not disclose this number.
“Anna Yevgenyevna [Tsivilyova] has mentioned figures here, including missing persons. I earnestly ask you not to use these figures anywhere. This is such sensitive, closed information. And when we draw up the final documents, we should not include these figures anywhere,” he said.
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SOURCE: www.independent.co.uk
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST | Published December 5, 2024
A relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin accidentally revealed a confidential figure that gives a possible official insight into the extent of Russia’s war dead in Ukraine.
Video published by the independent Astra Telegram channel on Tuesday showed Anna Tsivilyova, the reported daughter of Putin’s cousin and a deputy defence minister, saying that the government had received tens of thousands of appeals from relatives related to the tracking and identification of missing soldiers through DNA samples.
“The Ministry of Internal Affairs takes [DNA] absolutely free of charge at their own expense, and enters into its database all the relatives who have applied to us. I’ve already said 48,000,” Tsivilyova said at a meeting with lawmakers in the video.
Moments later, defence committee chief Andrei Kartapolov asked her not to disclose this number.
“Anna Yevgenyevna [Tsivilyova] has mentioned figures here, including missing persons. I earnestly ask you not to use these figures anywhere. This is such sensitive, closed information. And when we draw up the final documents, we should not include these figures anywhere,” he said.
Tsivilyova responded: “I didn’t mention the numbers of the missing, but of the appeals to us [by relatives].”
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SOURCE: www.scmp.com
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