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According to BBC News Russian and the Mediazona news website, out of 65,522 Russian soldiers and contractors whose deaths they had documented by 23 August 2024, 6 percent (3,950) were officers, while 7 percent (4,611) were Motorized Rifle Troops and 4.4 percent (2,873) were members of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV).
A number of Russian general officers [ a] have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of 28 November 2023, Ukrainian sources claimed that 16 Russian generals and 1 admiral had been killed during the invasion, while Russian sources have confirmed 7 deaths. Although seven of the Ukrainian claims were rebutted, the loss of even two ...
Russian forces sought to encircle the city, attacking from the north via Soledar. After taking heavy casualties, Russian and Wagner forces took control of Soledar on 16 January 2023. [281] [282] By early February 2023, Bakhmut was facing attacks from north, south and east, with the sole Ukrainian supply lines coming from Chasiv Yar to the west ...
On 4 March, Valeriy Chybineyev, a sniper, was killed at the Battle of Antonov Airport. [ 7] On 6 March, Pavlo Lee, an actor and member of the Territorial Defense Forces, was killed during the Kyiv offensive. [ 8] On 7 March, Oleksandr Marchenko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and member of the Territorial Defense Forces was killed in a ...
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals, medical facilities and on the energy grid; [1] [2] indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas; the abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual violence ...
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian authorities and armed forces have committed multiple war crimes in the form of deliberate attacks against civilian targets, [291] [292] massacres of civilians, torture and rape of women and children, [293] [294] and many indiscriminate attacks [295] [296] in densely ...
Part of the eastern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Damaged buildings in Avdiivka during fighting in January 2024. Date. 10 October 2023 [ a] – 17 February 2024. (4 months and 1 week) Location. Avdiivka (and surrounding villages), Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 48°08′N 37°46′E / . 48.13°N 37.77°E.
On 27 June 2022, the Russian Armed Forces fired two Kh-22 anti-ship missiles into central Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, hitting the Amstor shopping mall. A fire broke out, and, according to Dmytro Lunin, Governor of Poltava Oblast, the attack killed at least 20 people and injured at least 56. [209] 36 people were also initially reported missing ...