Headed to Afghanistan soon and looking up history. I can find all the info I want on Russia getting its butt kicked during operation "brotherly aid" but can't find out any numbers on Afghan military/civilian losses. Any help?
2006-11-06 02:47:30 · 4 answers · asked by jessica a 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Estimated 200,000 Mujahideen insurgents. But Russia basically used scorched earth tactics campaign destroying villages, houses, crops, and livestock. It was basically an attempt at genocide. Poison gas, poisoning village wells, Russian-made PFM-1, (one of the so-called "toy-mines") made to attract children. There are mine fields still marked off today. If you fly into BAF go by the old hospital. It has barracades around the minefield. The estimated loss of civilian life is just over a million dead, wounded and permantely maimed. With 80,000 to 100,000 on the ground at any one time they only were able to control a maximum of 20% of the countryside.
They lost:
118 jet aircrafts
333 helicopters
147 main battle tanks
1,314 IFV/APCs
433 artillery and mortars
1,138 radio sets and command vehicles
510 engineering vehicles
11,369 trucks and petrol tankers
Many of those are hulks you can still see around as monuments to Russian's failed goal.
2006-11-06 03:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i was in Bagram and i can say that there is no way to honestly account for the death toll over there back then. Hell there are still like 3.5 million land mines that are still being detonated over there that were left by the russians, and they didnt account for them. i have seen human remains in areas where land mine fields were located, and they have been there since the 80's. the russians left there dead there and never returned to get them; pretty crappy huh. well i hope this helps
2006-11-06 03:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by kram_7777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Yahoo Search: russian casualties afghanistan war
will help. I found:
"Official Soviet figures
14,751 killed or missing,
53,753 wounded,
415,932 sick."
2006-11-06 02:57:14 · answer #3 · answered by kearneyconsulting 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Estimates range between 200,000 and 700,000 casualties. Huge difference I know.
2006-11-06 02:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by seek_fulfill 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋