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===Military losses===
{{Main|Casualties of the Second Chechen War}}

Military casualty figures from both sides are impossible to verify and are generally believed to be higher. In September 2000, the [[Kavkaz Center]] compiled a list of casualties officially announced in the conflict, which, although incomplete and with little factual value, provide some minimal insight of the casualties.<ref>[http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000003-000001&lang=1 Casualties officially announced since the beginning of the conflict] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155502/http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000005-000003-000001&lang=1 |date=30 September 2007 }}, Prague Watchdog, 13 September 2000</ref> According to the figures released by the [[Russian Ministry of Defence]] in August 2005, at least 1,250 [[Russian Armed Forces]] soldiers were [[killed in action]] in 1999–2005. This death toll did not include losses of [[Internal Troops]], the FSB, police and local paramilitaries, of whom all at least 1,720 were killed by October 2003.<ref name="casualties">[https://archive.today/20070821154629/http://www.hrvc.net/htmls/references.htm Civil and military casualties of the wars in Chechnya], [[Russian-Chechen Friendship Society]]</ref> Independent Russian and Western estimates are much higher; the [[Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia]], for instance, estimated about 2,000 Russian Army servicemen have been killed between 1999 and 2003.<ref name="alert"/>