How do we count officer losses and what are the conditions and limitations of our list. NOTE #1: All information in this article is accurate as of 27. October 2023. NOTE #2: The team of volunteers participating in this project does not include military specialists. All information below is based on the degree of understanding of the team, and it is recommended that it should be reviewed by a military specialist. Data organization Information in the KIU database is organized in two tabs: Ranks This is the main data tab. In this tab, the names of confirmed killed in action (KIA) Russian officers are organized in columns: Columns A to J feature names of officers of the corresponding army ranks, sorted by seniority, beginning with the lowest ranked officers. Column A features names of Lieutenants. Column J features names of Generals of the Army (currently empty). The names of Junior Lieutenants have been separated into a new column recently (column L). More information on this office
In the first days after February 24, 2022 everything was messy. And that included information about Russian soldiers killed in action. The KIU project was started in mid-April, and by that time plenty of claims, counter-claims, and misinformation had already been spread. It was difficult to quickly sift through all the information, so all the claims were considered true, unless some proof of the opposite was supplied. One of the most difficult to untangle areas in this regard was the claims of lost generals. On April 17, 2022 with the second iteration of the KIU infographic, 2 Lieutenant Generals and 6 Major Generals were included in the list . Over time counterclaims would emerge about some of the generals, and it was decided that we would introduce color codes in order to distinguish between confirmed, claimed by Ukraine, and disputed by Russia claims of losses of generals. However, we now consider this to not be ideal and we will make corresponding changes to the list, removing the