that they documented the deaths of 1,479 Russian citizens while fighting as part of the rebel forces. The United States Department of State estimated 400–500 of these were regular Russian soldiers. Two Kyrgyz and one Georgian have also been killed fighting on the separatist side. Additionally, at least 262 foreign-born Ukrainian citizens or foreigners died on the Ukrainian side. One of those killed was the former Chechen rebel commander Isa Munayev. In late August 2015, according to a reported leak by a Russian news site, Business Life (Delovaya Zhizn), 2,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine by 1 February 2015. Foreign civilians and journalists At least 306 foreign civilians were killed in the war in Donbas prior to the 2022 invasion: 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian fixer and interpreter, activist Andrei Mironov Four other civilian journalists and media workers from Russia: Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, a correspondent and sound engineer respectively; Anatoly Klyan, a camera operator; and Andrey Stenin, a photojournalist One Russian civilian killed in the shelling of Donetsk, Russia One Lithuanian diplomat Landmines and other explosive remnants As a consequence of the conflict, large swaths of the Donbas region have become contaminated with landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). According to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, in 2020 Ukraine was of one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, with nearly 1,200 mine/ERW casualties since the beginning of the conflict in 2014. A report by UNICEF released in December 2019 said that 172 children had been injured or killed due to landmines and other explosives. 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Total casualties On 21 September 2022, Russia's Ministry of Defence confirmed that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed in combat. It also claimed 61,207 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 49,368 wounded by this point. According to BBC News Russian and the Mediazona news website, out of 15,136 Russian soldiers and contractors whose deaths they had documented by 24 February 2023, 11.6 percent (1,754) were officers, while 13.2 percent (1,996) were Motorized Rifle Troops and 10.3 percent (1,552) were members of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV). In addition, 8 percent (1,214) of Russian soldiers whose deaths had been confirmed were people who were mobilized, while 8.7 percent (1,310) were convicts. The BBC further stated that "Every week, we discover new evidence