How many military Armed Forces were killed in Syria: the names of mercenaries of Wagner PEC and FSB staff are established

Since then, Russia has announced the curtailment of a "military operation" and its contingent in Syria three times, but continued to participate in hostilities. The exact number of losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was not officially called. The Air Force journalists have established the names of more than fifty thousand dead. Officially, Russia has recognized the death of 116 servicemen in Syria. The Ministry of Defense made the latest statement in the spring of 2019.

The names of all personnel Russian military journalists were established on the basis of open sources: publications in the media, social networks, as well as data from cemeteries and military memorials. The death of 346 Wagner Employees in Syria was confirmed on the basis of open sources and internal documents of the company, which fell into the hands of journalists of a number of publications as a result of the origins from 2016 to 2022.

The real loss of the Russian side in Syria can be much higher. The latest known losses of Russia in Syria took place in October this year. Stepan Alektorsky and Mykola Mikhailenko were officers of the Marine Corps. Their title, the first rank captain, corresponds to the colonel's rank in the Land Army. The time of their death coincides with the date of the famous ambush of Islamic State militants on Syrian generals in the desert of the province of Deir Ez-Zor.

Then local sources reported that together with two Syrian generals, two Russian officers were killed. In total, Russia has lost in Syria dozens of the highest class. For example, open sources are known about the death of 15 soldiers and officers of special operations - the most elusive unit of special forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The history of losses of the elite unit is well illustrated by one group shot that has hit the network.

Only one person from this photo remained alive after business trips to Syria. It is known that three died. Two senior SCO officers - colonels Igor Meliatsev and Alexander Popov - died in Syria, as reported, from heart problems. Russia has also lost at least seven FSB special officers in Syria, including alpha staff. One of the dead is a sniper, Major Sergey Chernyshov, who previously served for 10 years.

Open sources also found evidence of the death of the 45th Brigade of Special Forces of the Air Force, soldiers and officers of the GRU units in Syria, as well as more than 20 military pilots and navigation. According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the preparation of only one military pilot in Russia costs from $ 3 to $ 14 million. In most cases where the Russian elite soldiers were killed and under what circumstances were killed.

Yes, the name of Colonel Yevgeny Velev appeared at the intelligence soldiers in Kaliningrad. Officially, the death of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation did not report. The Saratov military memorial helped to establish the names of several more people who died in Syria: for example, the senior lieutenant Roman Klyuchnikov and Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Ivanov.

In total, one Major-General, 10 colonels, 15 lieutenant colonels, 31 Major and 61 have been killed in Syria, who are ranking from Lieutenant to Captain in Syria. It is noted that if the special purpose officer dies, only the officer of the same military specialty can replace him. It takes up to 8 years to prepare such officers.

Most of the losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Syria are the mercenaries of the Wagner PEC, created by Yevgeny Prigogin in 2014 and named after the call sign "Wagner" of another of its founder Dmitry Utkin. Both of them were killed during a private aircraft plane on August 23, 2023, two months after the Wagner march to Moscow. The first known losses in Syria were carried out by PEC detachments on October 19, 2015: eight people.

The journalist of Fontanka's publication Denis Korotkov told this, which was included in the internal documents of Wagner. Among them was Alexander Leonov, born in 1963, who previously served in the police. Another large group of mercenaries died in the early 2018 in a battle near Hasham gas fields. The Kurdish forces asked for help in the US. As a result, the Wagnerivtsi came under massive helicopter and artillery blows. 67 fighters were killed on the spot, and 13 more died.

In total, the journalists were able to confirm the death of 346 fighters of Wagner PEC in Syria. It is noteworthy, but in 2018, three military aircraft were transported that were transported killed and wounded to Russia. Maria Zakharova, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that five Russian citizens could die in the fight, but these were not Russian soldiers. She said that reports of tens or hundreds of Russian casualties are "misinformation inspired by Russia.