Russian Federation
Casualties
Casualties Overview
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All known casualties by end 2016 |
3,187 civilian mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties (746 killed; 2,440 injured; 1 unknown) |
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Casualties in 2016 |
4 (2015: 14) |
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2016 casualties by outcome |
3 killed; 1 injured (2015: 7 killed; 7 injured) |
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2016 casualties by device type |
2 other ERW; 2 unknown mine/ERW type |
In 2016, four mine/ERW casualties were identified in the Russian Federation through Monitor media scanning. All recorded casualties in 2016 were adult male civilians. No child casualties were recorded among civilians.[1]
The total number of mine/ERW casualties throughout Russia remains unknown.
A total of 3,187 civilian mine/ERW casualties (746 killed; 2,440 injured; 1 unknown) have been recorded since 1994, including in UNICEF data for casualties in Chechnya.[2]
Cluster munitions were reported to have caused at least 638 casualties; 612 of the casualties occurred during strikes in Chechnya (294 killed; 318 injured) in the period from 1994 to the end of 1999. The other 26 casualties were caused by unexploded submunitions and were reported between 1994 and the end of 2007.[3]
[1] Monitor media monitoring from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.
[2] Monitor annual media monitoring since 2011; and email from Eliza Murtazaeva, UNICEF, 2 May 2011.
[3] Handicap International (HI), Circle of Impact: The Fatal Footprint of Cluster Munitions on People and Communities (Brussels: HI, May 2007), p. 85; and ICBL, Landmine Monitor Report 2007: Toward a Mine-Free World (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, 2007).