The Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War started on 30 September 2015, with 4,000 Russian military personnel being stationed in Syria. The Russian forces also consisted of: 25 strategic bombers, 20 tactical bombers, 12 attack bombers, eight fighter aircraft, 16 attack helicopters and various other aircraft.
As of 10 October 2017, there have been 41 officially confirmed Russian Armed Forces fatalities in the war. Also, two investigative groups reported a conservative estimate of at least 73-101 private military contractors (PMCs) being killed between October 2015 and December 2017, while the founder of one of the two groups stated the PMCs' death toll was at least 100-200. The PMCs belonged to the Russian company "Wagner". A combination of evidence compiled by both the groups and Reuters would put the number of killed PMCs between October 2015 and early December 2017, at 183. In addition, at least 23 fighters have been killed that were possibly regular military, but their status has not been officially confirmed.
Video Russian Armed Forces casualties in Syria
List of fatalities
Confirmed
The following is a list of the fatal casualties among the regular Russian Armed Forces:
Status unclear
The following is a list of fatal casualties among those that were possibly regular military, but were not officially confirme.
Maps Russian Armed Forces casualties in Syria
Prisoners
In the course of an Islamic State counter-offensive in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in late September 2017, two Russian fighters were captured by Islamic State militants. ISIL released a video of the two via the Amaq News Agency at the start of October. The Russian MoD denied any of its personnel had been taken prisoner. Later, it was reported they were PMCs believed to belong to the private military group called Wagner Group. One was Grigory Surkanov (38), aka Grigory Tsurkanu, and Roman Zabolotniy (38). According to a statement by a Russian parliamentary official on 5 October 2017, Roman Zabolotniy and Grigory Tsurkanu had almost certainly been executed.
On 25 December 2016, a Russian military Tupolev Tu-154 with 92 people on board crashed in the Black Sea during a flight from Sochi International Airport, Russia to Khmeimim, Syria. There were no survivors. Among those killed were: 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble choir, nine journalists, eight crew members, eight other passenger soldiers, two federal civil servants and a prominent Russian humanitarian worker.
See also
- List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Syrian Civil War that include Russian aircraft lost during the Syrian Civil War.
- Wagner Group
References
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