Russian and Soviet Foreign Military Involvment

Russian and Soviet Foreign Military Involvement Post-World War lI hostilities, during which Russian and Soviet military personnel were killed, outside Russia and the Soviet Union Number of military personnel killed in action 1,500,000 After World War II, 1.5 million Soviet and Russian military personnel were involved in various foreign armed conflicts 669 Hungary 67 South Osseti 315 15,051 Arghanistan 936 35 Korea Lebanon/Syria 49 Egypt/Israel China From the 1950s until the 1980s, the Soviet Union actively supported pro-Communist and other friendly forces on the territory of Third World countries. Such support included limited military involvement. After the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian military has been involved in very few foreign conflicts Algeria 25 Bangladesh Laos Yemen 16 Vietnam 33 Ethiopia Angola Mozambique 8 Soviet Union Russia China 1 Korea 2 Hungary 3 Laos 4 Vietnam 5 Algeria 6 Yemen 7 Israel 8 Mozambique 9 Bangladesh 10 Angola 11 Ethiopia 12 Afghanistan 13 Lebanon 14 South Ossetia 15 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 11 The Angolan Civil War (1975-1992) 12 The Ethiopian-Somali War (1977-1979) 13 The war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) 14 Hostilities in Syria and Lebanon (1982) 15 Safeguarding and defending Russian citizens in South Ossetia and Abkhazia (2008) 7 Hostilities in the Yemen Arab The Chinese Civil War (1946-1950) 2 The Korean War (1950-1953) 3 The Hungarian crisis (1956) 4 The national liberation war in Laos (1960-1975) 5 The Vietnam War (January 1961 - December 1974) 6 Hostilities in Algeria (1962-1964) Republic (1962-1963 and 1967-1969) 8 Arab-Israeli Wars (1967-1974) 9 The Mozambican Civil War (1967. 1969, 1971-1991) 10 Hostilities in Bangladesh (1972-1973) ORIANOVOSTI © 2012 wwW.RIA.RU