Laying-on of flowers ceremony

Ceremony of laying-on of flowers at the monument to the soldiers "Afghans" devoted to the 22th anniversary of withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in Kiev, on Tuesday, February 15, 2011. During the years of the Afghan war, which lasted from 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Army, KGB and Interior Ministry lost killed a total of 15,000 51. Sanitary losses amounted to nearly 54,000 wounded, shell-shocked, traumatized. Approximately 416,000 Soviet soldiers suffered serious infectious disease. In this case, according to some scholars, in the final casualty figures were not included soldiers, delivered during the war wounded at home, but died from his wounds and disease in hospitals in the territory of the USSR. In the fighting in Afghanistan, attended by more than 160,000 Ukrainians, 3,290 of them died in the war, nearly 60 missing or captured. More than 8 thousand Ukrainians were injured, about 4,690 of them returned home with disabilities. Photo by UNIAN