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According to BBC News Russian and the Mediazona news website, out of 61,831 Russian soldiers and contractors whose deaths they had documented by 31 July 2024, 6.17 percent (3,815) were officers, while 7.2 percent (4,442) were Motorized Rifle Troops and 4.5 percent (2,785) were members of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV).
12 November – NATO claims that Russian Army troops and military equipment have entered Ukraine. 14 November – Russia plans an "alternative Wikipedia". 16 November – The Russian Presidential Library announces plans to establish a Russian version of Wikipedia stating that it would provide more "detailed and accurate" information about the ...
Analysis. On 3 June 2022 the Dutch NOS news network described the phenomenon as "a grim series of Russian billionaires, many from the oil and gas industries, who have been found dead under unusual circumstances since early this year. The first was on 30 January, when 60-year-old Leonid Shulman, transport chief for Russian energy giant Gazprom ...
Euromaidan. During the events of the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from 21 November 2013 through 23 February 2014, a total of 110–123 protesters and 18 police officers were killed in street clashes in the Ukrainian capital. [ 1][ 2][ 3] In addition, one more participant of the Euromaidan was stabbed to death in clashes with pro-Russian ...
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.
Order of Honour. Order of St. George (3rd and 4th Class) Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov (Russian: Валерий Васильевич Герасимов, IPA: [vɐˈlʲerʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɡʲɪˈrasʲɪməf]; born 8 September 1955) is a Russian army general serving as the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and ...
— Igor Girkin, — Newspaper "Zavtra", 20 November 2014 According to an accomplice, Girkin arrived in Crimea describing himself as the "Kremlin's emissary," and soon after formed the Crimean self-defense forces. His position was above that of self-declared Crimea prime minister Sergei Aksyonov. His main task in March 2014 was the accelerated military training of the newly formed Crimean ...
As of 16 May 2023 [needs update], at least 17 civilian journalists and media workers have been killed in the line of duty since the Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014. Six have been Russian, four Ukrainian, one Italian, one American, one Lithuanian, one Irish and two French. An initial wave of journalist fatalities occurred in the early stages ...