Original sentence: Modern scholarly estimates of the direct loss of human life due to the famine range between 2.6 million.Russian political interests and their supporters in Ukraine have reasons to deny the deliberate character of the disaster and play down its scale.and 3.5 million,  while politicians.as are sometimes cited in the media.prefer to mention from 7 million to 10 million
Edited sentence: Anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian political interests and their supporters in Ukraine have reasons to deny the deliberate character of the disaster and play down its scale.Some modern scholarly estimates of the direct loss of human life due to the famine range between 2.6 million.and 3.5 million,  while numbers of 7 million to 10 million are cited in the media