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The 6th Mechanized Brigade, 7th Mechanized Brigade , and 81st Tactical Group would eventually join them, bringing the total number of Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Iraq to 1,660. [14] Though Ukraine's involvement in the war was a victory for Kuchma's public image in the US and UK which had invaded Iraq, it was deeply unpopular in Ukraine from ...
On 28 April, The New Voice of Ukraine reported that three winners of the Russian tank biathlon, Maxim Zharko, Bato Basanov, and Alexey Bakulo had been killed in Ukraine. [161] On 12 June, Major General Sergey Goryachev, Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, was allegedly killed by a missile strike in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. [162]
According to BBC News Russian and the Mediazona news website, out of 84,761 Russian soldiers and contractors whose deaths they had documented by 13 December 2024, 5.3 percent (4,495) were officers, while 6.6 percent (5,581) were Motorized Rifle Troops and 3.7 percent (3,100) were members of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV).
Russia's military casualties are approaching 300,000, including as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injuries, the newspaper reported. Ukrainian deaths were close to 70,000, with ...
An American fighting for Ukraine who served in the U.S. Army with combat tours in the Middle East described the constant Russian bombardment of the city of Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s Donbas ...
The UK military said both sides are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin‘s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counter-offensive.
A second wave of deaths began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Yevhenii Sakun, a Ukrainian, was the first journalist killed in that phase of the war, a victim of a Russian airstrike on the Kyiv TV Tower on 1 March 2022. Six more journalists have been killed by Russian soldiers, including four shot and one killed by shelling.
In February, amid Russia’s unprecedented military buildup on Ukraine’s borders — and the Biden administration’s equally unprecedented strategy of actively declassifying intelligence ...