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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
Kotenko was the first Ukrainian General to be reportedly killed in the war. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] On 11 November, Yevhen Kolesnichenko [ uk ] , handball player, three-time national champion as part of Shakhtar Donetsk , player of the Ukrainian men's national handball team , was killed after being blown up by a mine in Bakhmut.
Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the War in Donbas, [1] and up to 1,000,000 estimated casualties during the Russian invasion of Ukraine till mid-September 2024.
a. ^ Revolutionary War: All figures from the Revolutionary War are rounded estimates. Commonly cited casualty figures provided by the Department of Defense are 4,435 killed and 6,188 wounded, although the original government report that generated these numbers warned that the totals were incomplete and far too low. [ 89 ]
The Washington Post stated that generals were "killed at a rate not seen since World War II". [ 3 ] The deaths of Russian officers on the front line have been attributed to a number of Russian vulnerabilities in Ukraine, including the use of unsecured communications and the movement of officers to the front line to boost flagging morale and ...
Chinese casualty in the Korean War, by N H McMasters (edited by MickStephenson) Child soldier in Vietnam War at United Nations Security Council Resolution 1379 , by the United States Army Signal Corps (edited by MickStephenson )
The Picture of the Last Man to Die (1945) by Robert Capa. The Picture of the Last Man to Die is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa during the battle for Leipzig, depicting an American soldier, Raymond J. Bowman, aged 21 years old, after being killed by a German sniper, on 18 April 1945, shortly before the end of World War II in Europe. [1]
Overview: Iraqi death estimates by source Summary of casualties of the Iraq War. Possible estimates on the number of people killed in the invasion and occupation of Iraq vary widely, [15] and are highly disputed. Estimates of casualties below include both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the following Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present.