Russian military loss

Tern Russian military loss ( Российские военные потери ) may refer to the deaths of the Russian troops at the Putin world war (2008-2016), that includes the Russian invasion into Gerogia (2008-2016) Russian invasion into Ukraine (2014-2016) and Russian invasion into Syria (2015-2016)

Most of links are in Russian, but some news about this phenomenon are in English (or in other languages), and they are collected here.

Scientific interest
The topic has scientific interest, because the Russian administration, on one hand, insist, that the Russian troops are not sent to the territory of Ukraine, and, on the other hand, treat the data about Russian soldiers, killed and injured in Ukraine, as a top state secret. .

Numerical estimates
In year 2014, hundreds of Russian soldiers were reported to be killed in Ukrine.

For AUG 25, 2015, Forbes estimate the Russian military loss in Ukraine to count 2,000 Deaths and 3,200 Disabled .

2016.02.16, kosmologelei suggests the lower bound of the Russian military loss during the Russian invasion into Ukraine (since 2014) of 3488 deaths, counting the labels at the mass grave in Donetsk

2016.03.16, the same site indicate list personally 2081 killed occupants. .

2016.06.22, thedailybeast indicates that dozens Russian troops are killed during the Russian invasion into Syria (2015–2016). .

Secret
In Russia, the Russian military losses are treated as a top secret.

The secrecy of these data is declared by Vladimir Putin 2015.05.28.

The secrecy indicates, that total death toll due to the Putin world war and, in particular, at the Russian invasion into Ukraine, is much larger, than all the estimates published: Would the loss be smaller, the Russian administration would have no need to keep it as a secret.

The top secrecy of the Russian military loss may indicate also the extension of the area of the so–called hybrid war, id est, sending of Russian troops as terrorists) to the territories of other countries; this is supposer to enhance the death toll. Such a loss is not possible to hide from the international community, but it is possible to hide it from the significant part of that population of Russia, who have no access to internet and do not speak any foreign language.

Secrecy of the Russian information about the Russian military loss is interpreted not only as a state secret, but also as an attempt to hide the military crime.

Names
Due to such an attitude of the Russian administration to the killed Russians, the information about the Russian military loss is collected by volunteers. Some lists of Russian combatants killed in the Putin world war are mentioned in the Russian version of this article, Российские военные потери.

2017.04.10, kommersant.ru publishes overview of notices about recent Russian military loss. Russian combatants Igor Zavidnyi (Завидный Игорь Юрьевич) and Artem Gorbunov are reported to be killed in Syria.

As the Russian sources of information are partially blocked due to the secrecy, the foreign publications become especially important.

2017.04.18, Maria Tsvetkova (Reuters) reports deaths toll in Syria battle of Alexei Safonov, Vladimir Plutinsky and Mikhail Nefedov.

2017.04.20, death of Major Sergei Bordov in Syria is reported

Corruption
The secrecy of the huge russian military loss is in good agreement with more general concept abut total corruption of the Russian administration: in Russia of century 21, the corruption not only reaches the large scale, but becomes a normal, usual phenomenon, that characterises the entire life of the Russian officials.

Keywords
Annexation of Crimea, Designate Russia as state sponsor of terrorism, Fascism, Putin world war, Russia, Russian invasion into Georgia, Russian invasion into Ukraine, Russian invasion into Syria, Stop Putin, Terror