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A casualty is not always a death, it just means that someone is no longer able to fight. Russia has been sending people with a broken arm back to the front at times, so some people may be counted twice in that million. Traditionally one 1/3rd are death, but Russia has often been much higher. I'm not aware of anyone publishing data on how many Russians are dead. 1 million causalities is a large number, and it is the best data we have (at least public data): when other sources publish numbers it is generally close (or we have reason to think the other source is making up numbers). However it doesn't mean what it appears to.