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Over 4,000 medals were awarded to Russian servicemen for fighting in Ukraine.

407 views · Published 2 September 2016 · 0:47 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2016 · News & Politics

Thousands of Russian servicemen participated in combat operations in Donbas in 2014 and 2015, according to a new report from Bellingcat experts: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/08/31/russias-war-ukraine-medals-treacherous-numbers/

Bellingcat experts analyzed photos of medals uploaded by Russian soldiers to social networks. These images are valuable because most of the top Russian medals fall under a consecutive numbering system, which explicitly states the number of medals awarded to date.

The large number of awarded medals for " Distinction in Combat" – 4,300 awards between September 11, 2014, and February 18, 2016 – strongly hints at larger combat operations with active Russian military involvement during this period. In summary, the data suggests that more than 10,000 medals of all four considered types were awarded during the considered period," the experts reported.

The devil is in the details, or in this case - in medals.

Read more:
1) http://www.unian.info/war/1495986-russias-war-in-ukraine-the-medals-and-treacherous-numbers-bellingcat.html
2) http://uatoday.tv/news/thousands-of-russian-servicemen-involved-in-fighting-in-eastern-ukraine-bellingcat-737442.html

Over 4,000 medals were awarded to Russian servicemen for fighting in Ukraine.

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