Losses of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine. Full list

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung noted: "German intelligence services estimate the probable death toll of Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at 50,000. These figures are ten times more than the official figures. Official figures are clearly too underestimated and not credible." The report of the military analytical agency International Institute for Strategic Studies Military Balance for 2016 - in comparison with a similar report for 2013 - allows to estimate with high accuracy the irrecoverable losses of personnel and ground equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the active phase of the ATO.
Alexander Khrolenko

Against the background of the intensified hostilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south of the Donetsk People's Republic, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said on Monday that since the beginning of the conflict in Donbass 2,629 Ukrainian servicemen have died and 9,453 soldiers have been injured. These figures cause, to put it mildly, distrust.

According to official UN data, 32,856 people became victims of hostilities in eastern Ukraine: 10,056 killed and 22,800 wounded.

In 2015, German intelligence counted tens of thousands of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung noted: "German intelligence services estimate the likely death toll of Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at 50,000. These figures are ten times more than the official figures. Official figures are clearly too underestimated and not credible."

However, after the defeat at Ilovaisk and the completion of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in 2014, which was unsuccessful for Kiev, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko openly spoke about the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “60-65% of the military equipment in the units that stood on the first lines in the conflict zone was destroyed ".

The Ukrainian Internet portal "Apostrophe" also admitted that in the hostilities in the Donbass "the Ukrainian army lost more than 300 tanks, over half of its armored combat vehicles, and almost 50% of artillery systems."

Perhaps thousands of units of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed separately from the servicemen, and all the crews, paratroopers, artillery crews survived?

Mathematics is the queen of losses

As a rule, in the course of hostilities, the parties do not provide accurate information about their losses, so as not to disclose the operational situation to the enemy. Differences are possible in the assessments of international organizations and experts. And yet, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass are mathematically transparent.

The report of the military analytical agency International Institute for Strategic Studies Military Balance for 2016 - in comparison with a similar report for 2013 - allows to estimate with high accuracy the irrecoverable losses of personnel and ground equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the active phase of the ATO.

In three years, the number of Ukrainian tanks dropped from 1,435 to 788, that is, 647 tanks burned down. Of the 3,000 infantry fighting vehicles (BMPs), 1,300 units remained, that is, 1,700 BMPs were destroyed. Of the 3350 pieces of cannon and rocket artillery, 1,850 remained, that is, 1,500 artillery installations were lost. But on the battlefield, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles burn, as a rule, with crews and airborne squads.

There is no more shameful title than "ATO veteran"

The crew of the T-72 is three people. BMP-1 accommodates eight paratroopers (regular crew - three people). Calculation of BM-21 "Grad" - three people. Even without touching on the loss of personnel outside of armored vehicles, it can be assumed that few crews of 647 burned-out tanks (1941 people) survived, not all crews and paratroopers got out of 1700 damaged infantry fighting vehicles (18,700 people), and the calculations of 1,500 destroyed artillery units on the field battles were protected at best by body armor (4500 people).

It turns out that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with reference only to tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery are over 25 thousand killed and wounded. I believe that against the background of this figure, one can confidently speak of thousands of servicemen who died in the trenches. Thus, the probable losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the three years of the punitive operation in Donbass are about 30 thousand people (German intelligence also took into account civilian casualties, so I will not deny the death of 50 thousand Ukrainians).

The figure of 30 thousand correlates with the first three (out of seven) mobilizations in Ukraine (more than 30 thousand people were called up), after which there was no demobilization. New military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not created, and the number of the National Guard is only about five thousand people.

For three years, Ukraine sold 23 tanks and 28 armored personnel carriers on the international market, which does not affect the overall picture of combat losses.

Destruction of dignity

The network also contains more systematized data on the losses of the Ukrainian security forces and their sympathizers with Western European and American citizens (with weapons in hand). For obvious reasons, it is very difficult to verify information about the deaths of, for example, 88 employees of the CIA, FBI, US Special Forces, 737 foreign mercenaries from private military companies ASBS Othago (Poland), Asademi and Greystone Limited (USA) and other foreigners.

For more than a thousand days and nights, the civil war continues, which has become a natural continuation of the "revolution of dignity", the "color" project of the US and the EU. During this time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted dozens of offensive (punitive) operations, trying to seize individual settlements on the territory of the DPR and LPR. Almost all of them ended in failure.

The Kiev leadership and the "children of the Maidan" did not draw the right conclusions. The Minsk agreements are not being implemented. The ATO zone and the operation itself became a profitable business for individual Ukrainian politicians (military contracts, smuggling of goods and services). From time to time in Ukraine there are conflicts and even bloody skirmishes between security officials and radicals. The country's economic decline is masked by anti-Russian rhetoric. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have about 200 thousand servicemen, and most of them participate in the ATO.

In the proceedings of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation there are 104 criminal cases on crimes in the east of Ukraine. The defendants are Ukrainian politicians, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the chairman of the SBU.

Meanwhile, over 100 thousand Ukrainians received Russian citizenship in 2016. This is 49% more than in 2015 (67 400 people). At this rate, in 30-40 years ATO all Ukraine can return to Russia.

Ukraine will suffer a huge decline in armored vehicles and artillery during the hostilities in Donbass Photo: EPA / UPG

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has released the annual report The Military Balance-2016, describing the combat capabilities and technical equipment of the armed forces of different countries of the world. With regard to Ukraine, it is indicated that our country has suffered huge losses in armored vehicles and artillery, which can only be explained. Compared with the "pre-war" The Military Balance-2013, the losses of the Ukrainian army in weapons and equipment in places amount to about 50% of the previous number. The Russian army also suffered significant losses in equipment. This applies primarily to artillery and armored combat vehicles.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies was founded in 1958 and is based in London. He specializes in covering military and political conflicts and publishes annual reports on the combat capabilities of various armies around the world. One such report was recently released - The Military Balance-2016. A separate section of this document is devoted to the Ukrainian army. IISS experts mention the annexation of Crimea and note that the mobilization, which was carried out to fight the separatists in eastern Ukraine, demonstrated that the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were reduced due to inadequate training and insufficient resources.

The report also indicates that in 2015, President Petro Poroshenko signed a law to increase the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 184 to 250 thousand. At the same time, according to the IISS, the Ukrainian armed forces are still "using old Soviet equipment, and the military-industrial complex has begun to return the system to equipment that was previously in storage, including T-80 tanks." The United States began to supply Ukraine with non-lethal military equipment. , - noted in the report.

Currently, according to the IISS, 788 tanks are in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including 710 units of various modifications of the T-64 tank, 70 T-72 tanks and 8 T-80BV tanks. In addition, more than 1,300 tanks are in storage. Among them - 10 newest T-84 tanks (BM "Oplot") and 20 obsolete Soviet T-55 tanks.

Also, the Ukrainian army has more than 1,300 units of armored combat vehicles (AFVs), including 210 infantry fighting vehicles (BMP-1) and 960 BMP-2, as well as over 1,850 units of cannon and rocket artillery. IISS specialists counted 133 Mi-24 attack helicopters, as well as 202 aircraft that are part of the Ukrainian Air Force. These are fighters, attack aircraft, training, military transport and reconnaissance aircraft. The number of armored vehicles and aviation does not exhaust the information on the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces - the report indicates a fairly accurate number of air defense systems, warships, anti-tank weapons, various types of helicopters, anti-tank missile systems, armored personnel carriers, combat reconnaissance and patrol vehicles, etc.

At first glance, the strength seems to be quite impressive, but if we compare the data of 2016 with what Ukraine had before the start of the war, then a huge decline is striking, primarily in artillery and armored vehicles. The Military Balance-2013 review indicates that two and a half years ago, Ukraine had 1100 different modifications of T-64 tanks (there were 165 T-80 tanks, 600 T-72, 650 T-64 and 20 T-55 in storage); over 3 thousand BMPs, including 994 BMP-1 and 1434 BMP-2, as well as 3351 units of cannon and rocket artillery. At the same time, in 2013, IISS experts pointed out that due to the failure of the defense reform, the Ukrainian army is only able to defend "limited territory", and a large amount of Soviet equipment needs to be replaced.

A simple comparison of both documents shows that over the past two years, the Ukrainian army has lost more than 300 tanks, more than half of its armored combat vehicles, and almost 50% of its artillery systems. Such losses can only be explained by the hostilities in Donbass, the active phase of which took place in the summer of 2014 and in the winter of 2015, and they were conducted exclusively with the weapons of the ground forces. Combat aviation was used on a limited scale, so its decline is counted in units.

It is also noteworthy that relatively few tanks were taken from the storage facilities to make up for the losses, but the losses in armored combat vehicles and artillery, obviously, turned out to be irreparable. At the same time, in April, the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Oksana Gavrilyuk said that since the beginning of the ATO, as of April 2016, 46.5 thousand units of weapons and military equipment have been repaired (in January this figure was 34 thousand units). Thus, according to Ukrainian officials, the restoration of the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is proceeding at a good pace. British experts, obviously, do not share this point of view.

Who could have inflicted such losses on the Ukrainian army? In August 2015, the General Staff published an analysis of the ATO in August-September 2014, in which it indicated that by the beginning of August about 40 thousand personnel were involved in the ATO, including 32 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 5.5 thousand military personnel. units of heavy weapons and military equipment. The General Staff estimated the ratio of forces with the militants as 1 to 1, however, it is probably only about manpower, because the enemy did not have a comparable amount of artillery, armored vehicles, and even more aviation, to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Their leaders often complained about this, in particular, Igor Girkin (Strelkov). For example, breaking through from Slavyansk, Girkin lost almost all of his armored vehicles: two tanks, two BMP-2 and one BMD-1. At the same time, two more tanks "strelkovtsy" were able to save and deliver to Donetsk.

After and the completion of the 2014 campaign, which was unsuccessful for the Ukrainian army, President Petro Poroshenko announced the huge losses suffered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “60-65% of the military equipment in the units that stood on the first lines in the conflict zone was destroyed. There was nothing to defend,” the head of state said. And this estimate is in many ways close to the conclusions of the IISS specialists. It should be noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered the most damage when they tried to take control of a section of the border in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and came under fire from Russian artillery, which it led with impunity from its territory.

Thus, The Military Balance data indicate that the Ukrainian military-industrial complex has not yet been able to restore the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was lost during the war in Donbas. On the other hand, such huge losses are another indisputable evidence of the invasion of the regular Russian army into the territory of Ukraine and its active participation in battles, because the irregular formations of the DPR and LPR, which by August 20, 2014 were almost completely destroyed, simply had no strength and the means to inflict such great damage on the APU.

By the way, the Russian army also suffered losses in armored vehicles and artillery, which can also be tracked by reports The Military Balance. For example, in 2013, the RF Armed Forces had more than 2,800 tanks and another 18,000 units were in storage. But according to data from 2016, the number of tanks in the Russian armed forces decreased by 100 units, and 500 tanks were taken from warehouses. True, in 2016, the Russian Armed Forces acquired 600 modernized T-72B3 tanks, which were not included in the report for 2013, so the talk, most likely, can not only be about large losses, but about the technical re-equipment of the Russian army.

But the noticeable decline in artillery and the fleet of armored combat vehicles is difficult to explain only by rearmament and decommissioning of old samples. So, in 2013, the Russian Armed Forces had more than 7360 armored combat vehicles, and in 2016 - already 5400, and most of all BMP-1 and BMP-2 were lost - a total of 1500 pieces. At the same time, the warehouses where 8,500 BMP-1 and BMP-2 are stored remained intact. As for cannon and rocket artillery, The Military Balance for 2013 indicates a figure of 5436+ units, and in 2016 - already 4180+. Apparently, the Ukrainian army did not remain in debt at all, especially with regard to artillery duels. However, unlike the Ukrainian one, the Russian military-industrial complex can easily make up for all the damage caused, or it may have already made up, if we take into account the rather numerous facts of the destruction of Russian tanks during the battles in the Donbass.

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During the anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses in manpower and these losses are much more than official Kiev says.

Official losses during the armed conflict in Donbas, voiced by Ukraine over 1,800 people killed and 8,500 wounded, - said the head of the main personnel department of the Ukrainian General Staff, Lieutenant General Igor Voronchenko.

According to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Armed Forces suffered almost half of their irrecoverable losses outside the battlefield.

“To date, the losses of Ukrainian servicemen for the entire period of the ATO are 1,842 servicemen, 831 are not combat ones. 8,519 servicemen were wounded, ”a representative of the General Staff said.

Igor Voronenchenko said that for the entire time of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, about 100 thousand Ukrainian servicemen received the status of a participant in hostilities. In total, about 129,700 people are eligible for this status.

At a press conference in early November, Deputy Chief of Staff of the People's Militia of the LPR Igor Yashchenko announced other real figures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces losses during the ATO. According to him, the real losses of the Ukrainian side are several times greater than the official Kiev announces.

Real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass:

from April 13, 2014 - to November 13, 2015 - 85,880 people (cargo 200, 300 and 500), losses of foreign intelligence services of PMCs, NATO are not included in these figures; of which: 74560 - (cargo 200 and cargo 300); 11320 - (load of 500 deserters or those who joined the militia).
So 37,200 (cargo 200) - military personnel and various paramilitary formations. Of them: 4,540 (cargo 200) - militants of the "Right Sector", who became part of the National Guard; 5,600 (cargo 200) - employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and soldiers of territorial battalions and actually employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; 3,225 (cargo 200) - other categories of armed formations (Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Military Prosecutor's Office, medics, repairmen, escort brigades, engineering service and other military).

Further, 355 people (cargo 200) are employees of the Border Troops. 1,635 (cargo 200) - employees of the SBU. Alpha lost 500 (cargo 200), 400 people (cargo 300). Sumy "Alpha" was completely destroyed, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev, Poltava, Lvov, Rivne, Volyn, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir and Kharkov "Alpha" - suffered serious losses. Omega Special Forces suffered serious losses.

21 815 (cargo 200) - servicemen of the regular Ukrainian army.

For your information: near Debaltseve, about 25% of the personnel (about 2,200 people) were NATO servicemen and foreign mercenaries.

1,690 (cargo of 200 and 300) mercenaries from 39 countries, including: American PMC Asademi - 270; and her "daughter" Greystone Limited PMCs - 180; Polish PMC "ASBS Othago" - 700; from Canada, Germany, Britain, Finland, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Italy, Spain, Croatia, France, Sweden, Turkey, Czech Republic, Arab countries and Africa.

255 (235 - cargo 200, 20 - cargo 300) - CIA, FBI, US Special Operations Forces, US Special Operations Forces, SAS - British Airborne Service, French Legion, Israeli Mossad intelligence, "Aman" military intelligence and the Shabak general security service, the Shin Bet and IDF counterintelligence services of the Israeli army.

The current situation in Donbass

The Ukrainian military continues to concentrate forces east of Artyomovsk, near the station. Lugansk, preparing for the offensive, finally blocked the checkpoint and traffic from the DPR in the direction of Volnovakha. Columns BM-21 "Grad" walked in the morning towards Artemovsk. Artillery, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers (up to 30 units), as well as the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have already moved to the Gorlovka area.

10 tanks took up positions in the settlement. Dzerzhinsk, 5 km to the contact line. 12 tanks in the area of \u200b\u200bn. Novgorodskoe, 6 km to the contact line. In n. Nikolaevka, installed MLRS BM-21 "Grad" in the amount of 5 units, 8 km from the line of contact.

In the DPR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are probing the defense of Gorlovka, there is a threat of an offensive near Gorlovka - there is a high intensity of fire and the formation of assault battalions by security forces.

Strikes are being made on the territory of Donetsk airport: mortars, artillery and howitzers, which, according to the Minsk agreements, must be withdrawn from the contact line. In addition, the militia positions in the area of \u200b\u200bPeski and Spartak were fired from mortars.

Attacks on the VSN positions are going along the front line around Donetsk: Staromikhaylovka, Maryinka, Aleksandrovka, Yasinovatsky checkpoint. Krasnogorovka-Staromikhaylovka: shooting combat (large-caliber machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, AGS). Nevelskoye-Staromikhaylovka - (mortars). From Krasnogorovka, tanks are firing at Staromikhaylovka.

From the side of Nevelskoye, the security forces are firing at the positions of the VSN from the MLRS.

Near the Donetsk airport, a fighter of the "Legion of Freedom" organized crime group, the 93rd OMBr, the chairman of the "Sokol" public organization, volunteer Yuri Cherkashin "Chernota" was seriously wounded. As a result of shelling from the Ukrainian self-propelled guns "Akatsia" near Uglegorsk, two soldiers of the armed forces were killed.

In the LPR, the hottest spots are now the areas of Sokolniki, Zhelobok, Happiness, Popasnaya, st. Lugansk. Ukraine made three attempts to infiltrate the DRG. All three groups were scattered or destroyed. There is a high activity of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian military. One device was shot down.

The mothers of the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are horrified: real data about the losses of the ATO personnel over the three years of the war with the civilian population of Donbass got on the Internet.

On April 7, 2014, the then Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov made a statement, which is considered to be the official announcement of the ATO.

“An anti-crisis headquarters was created tonight, and anti-terrorist measures will be taken against those who took up arms,” Turchinov said in a televised address.

It is now known that the "events" have been dragging on for almost three years and the end is not yet in sight.

From the very beginning of the "anti-terrorist" operation, ATO soldiers began to suffer losses. The first victim is considered to be an employee from Poltava "Alpha" Captain of the SBU Gennady Bilichenko. In total, according to official data, since the deployment of hostilities in Donbass, the Ukrainian security forces have lost more than two thousand killed and more than nine thousand wounded. This was announced on Monday by the '' talking head '' of the Ministry of Defense on ATO issues, Andrey Lysenko.

"The total combat losses of our military in this war are 2,629 people," Lysenko said.

He also clarified that 2220 are servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the rest are representatives of the National Guard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Border Service, and the State Emergency Service. Lysenko added that 9,453 ATO participants were injured, of which 7,664 were soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

However, these figures are significantly underestimated. First of all, in all statistics there are no deaths outside the ATO zone, including those wounded in hospitals, those who died from diseases, and so on. In general, the dead Bandera and Nazis who fought in units that were not part of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are never taken into account. And such, by the way, in 2014 was the majority.

We all remember the famous gravedigger of the "Donbass" battalion Semyon Semenchenko, who at least three times in the spring and summer of 2014 went to the Maidan in Kiev to collect the next battalion, instead of the ones he had disposed of earlier. Today he himself will not remember how many there were - but an order-bearer, an officer, an untouchable deputy of parliament.

Do not forget that to this day there are battalions of foreign citizens, such as the battalion named after Dudaev (Munaev). Serving Americans and French, Poles and Georgians and in the regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Azov". At the same time, they serve illegally - according to the law, foreign citizens do not have the right to serve in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

There are also parts of the Bandera and Nazis that are not under the control of state structures, in the form of separate detachments of "Pravoseks" and the like - their losses are also not included in the statistics. That is why fewer and fewer people, even in the remnants of Ukraine, believe in the official figures and are trying to find out the truth on their own.

So, the Ukrainian programmer Yevgeny Dokukin, relying on open sources, published on his Facebook page data that during the ATO in Donbass 4209 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed. Moreover, Dokukin does not include in this number the “warriors” who have disappeared and are held captive by the militias - he counted only those who were ever mentioned in open sources as dead.

“As of 03/19/2017 [...] 3,746 dead. And also 34 soldiers and 429 unknown soldiers are separately mentioned, so as a result we have information about 4209 dead Ukrainian servicemen. There are also soldiers who are considered missing or in captivity, there are separate statistics for them, "the programmer wrote.

If Dokukin's calculations are correct, then the number of wounded ATO officers should be different. If we take the proportion based on the data provided by Lysenko, then this number can be about 15 thousand people.

Thus, in three years, Ukraine has lost about 20 thousand security officials killed and wounded. But even this figure may turn out to be greatly underestimated, since for various reasons the Ukrainian military are trying to hide their losses. And the ATO soldiers suffer losses every day.

For example, according to the Novorossiya news agency, on March 20, as a result of an attempt to break through the defense of the militia in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Kominternovo settlement (DPR) near Mariupol, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost ten people killed and five wounded, and one BMP-1 was also destroyed. Given the losses of the Nazi volunteer battalions, the exact figure, apparently, no one will ever know. Moreover, the war continues ...