From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/14/2005 1:31 AM Aug 10 2005 6:50PM Govt: nearly 3,500 troops killed in Chechnya since Sept '99
MOSCOW. Aug 10 (Interfax) - Russia's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that 3,473 Russian troops had died and 32 had gone missing in Chechnya since Russia moved forces into the region in September 1999.
Fourteen troops died in Chechnya in July 2005 alone, 12 of them in combat, the ministry said on its website.
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