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Aftermath of the Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro (14 January 2023), which killed 46 civilians Shelling of Kharkiv regional administration. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military have carried out deliberate attacks against civilian targets [1] [2] [3] and indiscriminate attacks in densely-populated areas. [4]
A mass grave of soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo. The casualties of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), direct and indirect, are broken down below: . Note that the following deaths listed include both killed in action as well as deaths from other causes: diseases such as those from wounds; of starvation; exposure; drowning; friendly fire; and atrocities.
Prior to its open involvement in 2022, especially during the first peak of the war in Donbas between 2014 and 2015, Russia had previously tried to deny any formal intervention in Ukraine and portrayed Russian forces in the country as either part of local forces [20] or Russian citizens voluntarily fighting in the country.
The Russian historian and general Dmitri Volkogonov said the Russian military's bombardment of Grozny killed around 35,000 civilians, including 5,000 children and that the vast majority of those killed were ethnic Russians. While military casualties are not known, the Russian side admitted to having 2,000 soldiers killed or missing. [45]
Despite the Russian military build-ups, Russian officials from November 2021 to 20 February 2022 repeatedly denied that Russia had plans to invade Ukraine. [43] [44] The crisis was related to the War in Donbas, itself part of the Russo-Ukrainian War, ongoing since February 2014.
The 872-day Siege of Leningrad, Russia, resulted from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad in the Eastern Front during World War II.The siege lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944, and was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, devastating the city of Leningrad.
A Soviet war correspondent, in the style of World War II Soviet journalism, gave the following account of an important event which took place on 22 April 1945 at 08:30 local time: [67] On the walls of the houses we saw Goebbels ' appeals, hurriedly scrawled in white paint: 'Every German will defend his capital.