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Viktor Zemskov puts total military dead (1941–45) at 11.5 million. [8] A 2013 academic study put Soviet military dead at 11.4 million. [100] In addition to the war dead there were 622,000 persons who remained abroad after the war. [3] Births and natural deaths during war are rough estimates since vital statistics were inaccurate.
The Russian military is top-heavy, with generals playing a larger role in day-to-day operations than in other militaries. [7] [81] Russian battalion commanders were given more authority only three years before the invasion. [13] According to analysts and Western officials, Russia had deployed approximately 20 general officers to Ukraine.
He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine and was posthumously awarded as Hero of Ukraine. [ 21][ 22] On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk. [ 23] On 7 April, Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol.
In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on July 12, 2024, Russian soldiers operate a Supercam drone in an undisclosed location (AP)
Petrov was born on 7 September 1939 to a Russian family near Vladivostok.His father, Yevgraf, flew fighter aircraft during World War II. [7] His mother was a nurse. [7]Petrov enrolled at the Kiev Military Aviation Engineering Academy of the Soviet Air Forces, and after graduating in 1972 he joined the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
The post-Soviet government of Russia puts the Soviet war 'losses' at 26.6 million, on the basis of the 1993 study by the Russian Academy of Sciences, including people dying as a result of battle and war related exposure. This includes 8,668,400 military deaths as calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. [226] [227]
Rossiya-24 claimed Poddubny came under fire from a Ukrainian drone while reporting in Kursk region, where Russia’s military said it has been battling to contain an incursion by up to 1,000 soldiers.
The Free Buryatia Foundation, which was founded in opposition to the invasion, has used open-source intelligence to try to track the number of Buryats killed in action in Ukraine. As of April 2022, the Foundation has estimated that around 2,8% of Russian casualties were Buryat, one of the highest death tolls among the Russian federal republics.