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Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo. Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, [1] and approximately 617,910 as of March 2024. [2]
Russell Bonner Bentley III [2] (Russian: Рассел Бентли, romanized: Rassel Bentli; 1960 – April 2024), also known as Texas and the Donbass Cowboy, was an American man who served in Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017 on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started in late February 2022, more than 300,000 Russian citizens and residents are estimated to have left Russia by mid-March 2022, at least 500,000 by the end of August 2022, [not verified in body] and an additional 400,000 [1] by early October, for a total of approximately 900,000.
In Syria, where Wagner forces were part of the Russian military presence in the country's civil war, sources told Reuters that local authorities and Russian military commanders launched a swift crackdown on the Wagner Group to prevent the spread of the rebellion there. [148]
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals, medical facilities and on the energy grid; [1] [2] indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas; the abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual violence ...
On 21 September 2022, seven months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia declared a partial mobilization of military reservists.The decision was made a day after the announcement of the Russian annexation of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
While there were fewer conflict deaths between May and September, there were still many armed clashes and a spike in early June. [102] Two dozen local officials appointed by the military were assassinated throughout the month of June with hundreds of bombings at police stations, banks and government offices. [103]
The two Ukrainian soldiers who were killed are regularly included in the military death toll from the war in Donbass. [11] On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid near the Crimean town of Armyansk which killed two Russian servicemen. The government of Ukraine dismissed the report as a provocation.