More than 7,300 fighters from the South of Russia have been officially recognized as killed in the SVO zone

The authorities of the regions of southern Russia have publicly acknowledged that more than 7,300 servicemen have been killed in combat in Ukraine, including 3,675 from the Southern Federal District and 3,632 from the North Caucasus Federal District.

As "Caucasian Knot" reported, by August 19, the official authorities and representatives of the security forces had made public the data of 7,251 servicemen from southern Russia killed in combat in Ukraine. 3,644 of those killed were in the Southern Federal District, 3,607 in the North Caucasus Federal District.

"Caucasian Knot" maintains a list of names of natives of the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts killed in the military operation. The list is based on data officially announced by government officials and security agencies.

According to the "Caucasian Knot" calculations, officials and security forces in the south of Russia by August 30 have released data on at least 7,307 servicemen killed in Ukraine. Of this number, 3,675 officially recognized as killed are in the Southern Federal District, 3,632 in the North Caucasus Federal District.

In the North Caucasus Federal District, the largest number of officially recognized losses is in Dagestan, where the authorities have announced data on at least 1,525 servicemen killed. There are 804 of them in Stavropol Krai, 479 in North Ossetia. 285 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria and 242 from Chechnya have been publicly acknowledged as killed, as well as 152 combatants from Ingushetia and 145 from Karachay-Cherkessia.

In the Southern Federal District, the largest number of those killed, publicly named by the authorities, is in Volgograd Oblast - 1,311. In Krasnodar Krai, officials have released data on 776 killed soldiers, in Rostov Oblast - 706. Another 601 killed soldiers are in Astrakhan Oblast, in Kalmykia, information has been voiced about 172 killed soldiers, in Adygea - 109.

The first government official to report that a Russian serviceman had been killed in the Northern Military District zone was the head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov. On February 26, 2022, he reported that officer Nurmagomed Gadzimagomedov had been killed in Ukraine.

The head of Chechnya, unlike the leaders of a number of other regions, extremely rarely reports data on losses at the front. Moreover, in February 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov said that regional leaders should not report data on the number of deaths in Ukraine, calling for "no comment on losses," although he himself had previously reported the deaths of Chechen fighters.

The Chechen authorities sometimes only name those who are awarded posthumously or immortalized in their native settlements, according to the "Caucasian Knot" article "North Caucasian security forces have already died in the SVO in 2 years, 4 times more than in the conflict in the North Caucasus over the past 12 years".

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