How do countries hide their losses during wars?

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I know it is normal for countries to deflate their casualty numbers during war, but how do they do it? If for example 1000 soldiers are killed in a month, how could a government claim only 400 were killed without the public discover this to be a lie? Surley the families of the killed soldiers are promptly informed.

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The russia doesn’t even acknowledge the PoWs we capture unless we literally put them on YouTube.

They simply don’t tell relatives, and despite putin admitting to 700 thousands dead, most relatives simply don’t get notified their guy died.

It’s also hard to count, who knows how many crewmen were in APC or the tank and of shrapnel falling into trench killed or wounded anybody?

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