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On 22 February, a British military public figure and author of military books, James Gerard Richard Shortt [70] was killed fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine. [71] On 6 March, Major Andriy Lukanyuk , battalion commander in the 80th Air Assault Brigade and a veteran of the 2014 war, was killed by a Russian airstrike in Chasiv Yar.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that more Russian soldiers died in the first year of the war in Ukraine than in all its other wars since World War II combined, an average 5,000 to 5,800 soldiers a month, vs 13,000 to 25,000 in Chechnya over 15 years and 14,000 to 16,000 in Afghanistan. Thus, the first year of the ...
Date of death or announcement Name Group Age Location of death May 7, 2022 () Leonid Butusin: Ukrainian Armed Forces: 20: Chernihiv region [3] [4] May 7, 2022 () Roman Butusin: Ukrainian Armed Forces: 24: Chernihiv region [3] [4] September 6, 2022 () Sergei Petrovichev: Ukrainian Armed Forces: 35: Izium, Kharkiv Oblast [5]
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.
The war is believed to have killed tens of thousands of soldiers on each side, though there are no official or independently collated figures. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week disclosed parts of his so-called ‘victory plan’ aimed at compelling Russia to end the war through negotiations.
The war’s front lines have scarcely shifted in 18 months, but Ukrainian soldiers say this is only down to their continued fight — and the support they now feel once again in both words and ...
Even far from Ukraine's front lines, military funerals set off waves of mourning. 'You can't see an end to it,' one chaplain says as the war drags on. In Ukraine, a harvest of death as bodies of ...
The war began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 in what it called a "special military operation." The biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two grinds on with no clear end in sight.