 In 2003, they lost roughly 3,000 dead.In 2004, the human rights group Memorial estimated the number of civilian casualties of both wars at "more than 200,000" and the number of Russian soldiers killed at 20,000 to 40,000 

In 2006, Alexander Cherkasov of the human rights group Memorial pointed out that the Russian government did not make any attempt to count civilian casualties in the war of 1994-96, nor after 1999.