MOSCOW. Nov 1 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian units lost 3,438 servicemen dead and 11,661 wounded in Chechnya between the start of the anti-guerrilla operation on October 1, 1999 to October 10, 2001, an official in the Russian presidential information service told Interfax on Thursday.
In particular, Defense Ministry units lost 2,136 men dead and 5,763 wounded, while Interior Ministry's units lost 1,196 dead (493 of them interior service personnel and 703 servicemen of the ministry's troops), and 5,399 wounded (3,107 of them interior service personnel and 2,292 servicemen of the ministry's troops). Other units lost 106 dead and 499 wounded.