Paul Goble
Staunton, Sept. 1 – Even though many Russians prefer to go about their lives without paying too much attention to Putin’s war in Ukraine, ever fewer of them can ignore the ways in which that war is coming home to Russia. The most recent example is rising mortality rates on Russian highways, especially in the southern part of the country.
Because more Russians are taking to the highways for travel because airports are now often closed given the threat of Ukrainian drone attacks and because the movement of Russian equipment on highways often leaves them clogged, deaths on Russian highways have risen dramatically since the war began (verstka.media/karta-avtodorog-rossii-smertelnii-dtp).
Highway deaths had been falling in Russia between 2013 and 2021, but in Rostov Oblast and Krasnodar Kray, 30 percent more motorists died during the first six months of 2023 than did during the corresponding period of 2022, according to an investigation carried out by the independent Vyorstka news agency.
The investigation found that elsewhere in the south and west of the Russian Federation there have been similar increases which have been reported by regional media but not by Moscow which has concealed this rise in the number of Russian deaths there by now reporting only all-Russian figures.
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