Russian Armed Forces casualties in Syria information
The Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war started on 30 September 2015, with 4,000 Russian military personnel being stationed in Syria.[1] The Russian forces also consisted of 25 strategic bombers,[2] 20 tactical bombers,[3] 12 attack bombers,[4] 8 fighter aircraft,[5][6] 16 attack helicopters[7][8] and various other aircraft.
As of spring 2019, there have been 116 officially confirmed Russian Armed Forces fatalities in the war.[9] Also, two investigative groups, Fontanka and the Moscow-based Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), reported a conservative estimate of at least 73–101 private military contractors (PMCs) being killed between October 2015 and mid-December 2017,[10] 40–60 of whom died during the first several months of 2017, according to Fontanka[11] and one more PMC was killed in late December 2017. [12] In early 2018, the founder of CIT stated the PMCs' death toll was at least 100–200,[13] while another CIT blogger said at least 150 were killed and more than 900 were wounded.[14] They belonged to the Russian company "Wagner".[10] In February 2018, a number of Russian PMCs were reported to have been killed during the Battle of Khasham. Estimation of casualties varies with some sources reported up to 200 Russian contractors died during the strikes. [15][16] On 15 March 2023, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 266 Russian PMCs were killed in Syria during the civil war.[17]
In addition, at least 23 fighters have been killed that were possibly regular military, but their status has not been officially confirmed.[18]
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^Cenciotti, David (29 September 2015). "Russian Marines Position Themselves in Eastern Latakia". The Aviationist. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^Gibbons-Neff, Thomas (21 September 2015). "This is the airpower Russia has in Syria". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
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^Ptichkin, Sergey (1 February 2016). "Россия перебросила в Сирию новейшие Су-35С". Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 1 February 2016.
^"Russian Fighter Aircraft Arrive in Syria". Stratfor. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
^Shchegolev, Ilya (30 November 2015). "В Сирии заметили Ка-52 и Ми-28Н". Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 26 March 2016.
^"4 Russian Special Forces Officers Killed in Syria – Reports". The Moscow Times. 3 February 2020.
^ ab"Thousands of Russian private contractors fighting in Syria". AP News. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
^"What losses PMC Wagner suffered in Syria". Fontanka.ru. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017 – via RusLetter.
^"Еще один доброволец из Томской области погиб в Сирии". vtomske.ru. January 15, 2018.
^"Россия скрывает убитых". www.inopressa.ru. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
^Nemtsova, Anna (2 January 2018). "A Russian Blackwater? Putin's Secret Soldiers in Ukraine and Syria". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via www.thedailybeast.com.
^Fifteen Russian security staff killed in Syria explosion: The incident at a weapons depot follows the reported deaths of scores of Russian mercenaries in a US-led coalition attack last week Archived 2018-03-01 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, 15 February 2018.
^"More than 200 Russians may have been killed in Coalition strikes in Syria". The Defense Post. February 10, 2018. Archived from the original on April 23, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
^"Syrian Revolution 12 years on | Nearly 614,000 persons killed since the onset of the revolution in March 2011". SOHR. 15 March 2023. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^"34 Russian soldiers killed-in-action across Syria since intervention began: Kremlin". 3 August 2017. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
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