As of the morning of March 5, the occupying forces lost more than 10,000 people, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. These are approximate estimates. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities. This is a fairly high figure and is about 70 percent of the size of the losses suffered by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1979-1989.
The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces, and internal security troops, for the ten years, came to 14,453. Soviet Army formations, units, and HQ elements lost 13,833, KGB subunits lost 572, MVD formations lost 28, and other ministries and departments lost 20 men. During this period, 312 servicemen were missing in action or taken prisoner; 119 were later freed, of whom 97 returned to the USSR and 22 went to other countries.
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