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Russian casualties of war

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Russian casualties of war lists deaths of Russian armed forces and Russian citizens caused by conflicts in which Russia was involved. The Soviet wars listed below also include deaths of all Soviet armed forces and all Soviet citizens caused by conflicts in which The Soviet Union was involved.

Conflict Start End Military Dead Military wounded Civilian Dead Total Dead Note
Polish Soviet War 1918 1919 60,000 Unknown 60,000 Rummel p 55[1]
Soviet invasion of Poland 17 September 1939 6 October 1939 3,000 20,000 3,000 Sanford pp. 20–24 Sanford, George [2]
World War 2 1939 1945 8,668,400 14,685,593 15,900,000 24 568 400 Krivosheev, G. F[3]
Soviet-Japanese War 7 August 1945 2 September 1945 9,780 19,562 9,780 "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler" [4]
Soviet-Afghan War 1979 1988 14,500 53,753 562,000 14,500 Casualties of the War in Afghanistan[5]
First Chechen War 1994 1996 14,000 52,000 14,000 Casualty Figures Jamestown Foundation - first Chechen War[6]
Second Chechen War 1999 2009 6,029 Unknown 30,000 36,029 "Defense and Security / PressPATROL [7]
Russo-Georgian War 7 August 2008 12 August 2008 162 283 65 227 "The Tanks of August" [8]
Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 Present Included in wounded 550,000 550,000 Newsweek August 7th, 2024 https://www.newsweek.com/russian-casualties-war-ukraine-rising-death-toll-1935740.

References

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  1. ^ Rudolph J. Rummel (1990). Lethal politics: Soviet genocide and mass murder since 1917. Transaction Publishers. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-56000-887-3. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  2. ^ (2005). Katyn and the Soviet Massacre Of 1940: Truth, Justice And Memory. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-33873-5.
  3. ^ Krivosheev, G. F. (1997). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-280-4.
  4. ^ Glantz, David M. & House, Jonathan (1995), When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, ISBN 0-7006-0899-0, p. 300
  5. ^ "The Soviet War In Afghanistan" The Atlantic 8/2014 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989/100786/
  6. ^ Casualty Figures Jamestown Foundation Archived August 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140814003203/http://www.cdi.org/russia/245-14.cfm
  7. ^ "Defense and Security / PressPATROL / Media Monitoring Agency WPS". old.wps.ru.
  8. ^ Tanks 2010, pp. 130–135. https://web.archive.org/web/20110128165000/http://www.cast.ru/files/The_Tanks_of_August_sm_eng.pdf