Death year

In 2014, more than 200 deaths of Russian troops are hosted. This conclusion was reached by the Conflict Intelligence Team investigation after studying the statistics of the Ministry of Defense, according to the CIT website.

CIT notes that the number of deaths and injuries of the military is reduced from year to year. However, in 2014, an “abnormal” increase in their number occurred. Moreover, for other years, the ratio of deaths and injuries has changed significantly.

"We came to the conclusion that for 2014 there are about 200 deaths and from 500 to 800 injuries, which are almost impossible to explain by incidents when serving in peacetime (for comparison, the collapse of the barracks in Omsk in 2015 entailed death of 24 military personnel). We assume that these deaths and injuries are mainly on the fighting that Russian regular units were in charge of Ukraine in Augustus - in August. September 2014, ”the study says.

In August 2015, the head of the OSCE observers in the Rostov Region Paul Pikar said that over the year, through the Russian-Ukrainian border, 21 Gazelle cars with the inscription “Gruz 200” drove through the Gukovo and Donetsk band. According to Picar, there were coffins in the cars.

In May 2015, Vladimir Putin, by his decree, attributed data on the losses of the personnel of the Armed Forces to GOSTINE in peacetime during special operations. ” However, the statistics of deaths and injuries of military personnel for 2012-2016 were published in the materials for the conducted by the Ministry of Defense for the tender for insurance.

On Monday, the Vedomosti newspaper, as reported by the publication, drew attention to these materials, 630 military personnel of the Ministry of Defense died in 2012, in 2013 - 596, in 2014 - 790 Russian troops, and in 2015 - 626.