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The amount of deniers and propagandists in the comments is unreal.

For those genuinely trying to better understand death toll estimates, I do wish to help inform you so you can be better equipped to push back against nonsense.

Evidence - when war crimes are committed by a state actor that controls the territory, the bodies, and the records - will never be neat nor complete.

To this day, we do not have a complete list of those killed in the Holocaust because records were destroyed and entire bloodlines were wiped out. That is the aim of genocide - erasure.

Moreover, evidence - in a war of this scale and scope with this type of weaponry - is oftentimes fragments, fragments of fragments, dust, and parts of bodies that have been calcified, mummified, immolated.

There were reports that Russian troops poured chlorine to mask the smell of the dead and then layered concrete over the remains to hide them. They then threatened survivors, staged propaganda interviews, and rewrote the official version of events. This is textbook state-directed atrocity.

It takes time, access, and transparency to uncover the full extent of war crimes. As long as Mariupol remains occupied, this is impossible.

So if someone claims “there’s no evidence,” the answer is simple: There was - until Russia destroyed it.
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