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> As of July 19, 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,431 total deaths in Iraq (US troops).

>The number of United States troops who have died fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had passed 7,000 at the end of 2019.

Still seems to be a lot, not sure if that number from Ukraine includes captives as well.

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Regarding captives, Ukraine claims they've captured 200. Here's the full quote. Note that while it comes via the BBC, it's merely taken from an official Ukrainian facebook page [1]:

> The Ukrainian military has published what they claim is a breakout of Russia's losses. According to a post on its Facebook page, more than 3,500 Russian soldiers involved in the invasion have been killed and almost 200 taken prisoner.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60517447?pinned_p...

As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, there may be some misunderstanding/misreporting going on. According to Alexey Arestovich (a military advisor to the office of the Ukrainian president), the 3500 includes both killed AND wounded.

Wounded POWs are included as POW

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