At least 2,116 fighters from the North Caucasus Federal District and 2,184 from the Southern Federal District have been killed in the war in Ukraine, government officials and security officials said. Most of the dead were in Dagestan.
As the Caucasian Knot wrote, as of June 20, representatives of the authorities and law enforcement agencies reported that at least 4,250 fighters from the regions of southern Russia were killed in the war zone in Ukraine: 2,094 from the North Caucasus Federal District and 2,156 fighters from the Southern Federal District. The largest number of military deaths occurred in Dagestan.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, government officials and security forces have acknowledged that at least 4,300 fighters from the regions of the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts have been killed.
According to official data, 2,116 servicemen from the North Caucasus Federal District were killed during the SVO. The largest number of those killed was in Dagestan – 932. The death of 146 servicemen from Kabardino-Balkaria, 65 from Ingushetia, 292 from North Ossetia, 63 from Karachay-Cherkessia, 191 from Chechnya, 427 from Stavropol Krai was also confirmed.
According to official data, 2,184 soldiers were killed in the war in the Southern Federal District. The deaths of 327 soldiers from the Astrakhan Region, 57 from Adygea, 794 from the Volgograd Region, 88 from Kalmykia, 450 from the Krasnodar Region, and 468 from the Rostov Region have been confirmed.
The “Caucasian Knot” maintains a list of names of natives of the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts who were killed. The list is based on data officially announced by government officials and law enforcement agencies, according to the “Caucasian Knot” report “North Caucasus Federal District Statistics: Losses Are Growing for the South of Russia.”
By 19 June at least 69 streets in southern Russia were named after killed soldiers. Most of the streets were named after retired Air Force Major General Kanamat Botashev, and the leader in the number of new names, according to the Federal State Information System, was Stavropol Krai.
Neither state awards nor memorial plaques to those killed guarantee their families support from the state, says the Caucasian Knot article “Three Comrades Served: How the Authorities Deprive the Families of Killed Volunteers of Benefits,” which collects the stories of soldiers killed during the invasion of Ukraine.
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