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  "title": "War Maps · A human scale",
  "edition": "Public 2",
  "source_repository": "https://github.com/SJAH9/war-maps-project",
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    ],
    "note": "Palette from generate_network_art.py. Each red pixel in the memorial border represents one Russian death. Network views are a curated composition; they are not a causal or geographic map."
  },
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    "russian",
    "civilian",
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    "high",
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    "citation",
    "date_precision",
    "location_precision"
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      },
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      "poster": "https://sjah9.github.io/war-maps-project/outputs/release/war-maps-russia-ukraine-deaths-2024-circle.pdf"
    },
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      "year": 2025,
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        "russian": 77679,
        "civilian": 2856,
        "unknown": 56
      },
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      "events": 8025,
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      "through": "2025-12-31",
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      "source_audit": "https://github.com/SJAH9/war-maps-project/blob/b66beef8d8a4972b7b7712a4dff628afecbbefb0/outputs/print/war-maps-russia-ukraine-deaths-2025-circle.json",
      "poster": "https://sjah9.github.io/war-maps-project/outputs/release/war-maps-russia-ukraine-deaths-2025-circle.pdf"
    },
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        "civilian": 2126,
        "unknown": 14
      },
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      "ucdp-candidate-ged-2026-07",
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    "through": "2026-09-10",
    "codebook": "https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/candidateged/ucdp-candidate-codebook1.4.pdf",
    "interpretation": "Sum of best estimates in latest-ID-reconciled observations, not verified unique people. Warfighter shorthand denotes deaths_a + deaths_b, not independently verified individual status. Unknown remains separate; civilian is a subset of total. Injuries are not included.",
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}