January 28, 2023

Index of War


Index of War
Burned-out apartment building in Ukraine, a result of Russian attacks. Mikhail Volkov

Number of heavy tanks western nations agreed to send to Ukraine: 321

Rank of 2022 in scale of Russian money transfers abroad: 1

Amount transferred to Kazakhstan: $775,400,000

...number of times that exceeds previous record: 6.8

Amount transferred to Georgia: $2 billion

Expected Russian budget deficit in the coming year: 3%

...as such, years Russia is can continue its Ukraine War at current levels: 3

Years in prison a Russian can get for financially supporting the “undesirable” Meduza: 5

Number of organizations the Kremlin classified as “undesirable” in 2022: 22

Total number of “undesirable organizations”: 75

Political arrests of individuals in Russia in 2022: 20,467

Number of organizations and individuals declared “foreign agents” in 2022: 176

Total number of “foreign agents” in Russia: 619

Percent of all “foreign agents” facing criminal prosecution: 18%

Amount activists have been forced to pay for security forces' "overtime": R13.7 million

Number of persons convicted of “rehabilitation of Nazism” in 2022: 21

Sentences handed down for high treason in 2022: 11

Websites blocked in 2022: 210,450

Verified civilian casualties from Russia’s War on Ukraine: 11,415

Total number of Ukrainian refugees in Russia: 2,852,295

… in Poland: 1,563,386

… in Germany: 1,021,667

… in Czechia: 482,049

Minimum number of total war-displaced Ukrainians: 14,000,000

Total US aid to Ukraine since Russian invasion: €47,819,000

Ukraine estimate of Russian soldiers killed in action since invasion: 108,190

Related estimate of wounded Russian soldiers: 324,000

Russian military deaths in the war, per Russian government (September): 5,937

Ukraine estimate of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action since invasion: 13,000

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