At the same time, a report by the United Nations stated 1,331–1,460 people were missing, including at least 378 soldiers and 216 civilians. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv has been transformed into a war memorial with the photos of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who were killed during the war in Donbas Missing and capturedĪt the beginning of June 2015, the Donetsk region's prosecutors reported 1,592 civilians had gone missing in government-controlled areas, of which 208 had been located. The following table does not include the 298 deaths from the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 or the deaths of Ukrainian servicemen, which are listed separately.Ģ,420 civilians and DPR fighters killed ġ,185 civilians and LPR fighters killed ĥ,042 civilians and DPR fighters killed Ī wall of St. Deaths by regions Deaths of Ukrainian soldiers in 2018. Subsequently, the military did not publish new figures on their non-combat losses, stating they could be considered a state secret. Īccording to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1,175 of the Ukrainian servicemen died due to non-combat causes by 5 March 2021. Eventually, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry stated that the numbers recorded by the National Museum of Military History were the official ones, although still incomplete, with 4,638 deaths (4,500 identified and 138 unidentified) cataloged by 1 December 2021. Several medical officials reported they were overstretched due to the drastic number of casualties. Initially, the known number of Ukrainian military casualties varied widely due to the Ukrainian Army drastically understating its casualties, as reported by medics, activists and soldiers on the ground, as well as at least one lawmaker. The vast majority of the deaths took place in the first year of the war, when major combat took place before the Minsk agreements. This number includes non-combat military deaths, as well as deaths from mines and unexploded ordnance. This includes about 6,500 pro-Russian separatist forces, 4,400 Ukrainian forces, and 3,404 civilians. The overall number of estimated deaths in the war in Donbas, from 6 April 2014 until 31 December 2021, was 14,200–14,400.

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