Counting of killed Komi warriors reaches 600

According to Telegram channel Pesets, Eduard Pashnin from the Ust-Kolomsky area became the 600th killed warrior from the Komi Republic killed in Ukraine since the full-scale onslaught started in February 2022.

The social media channel’s counting of killed local men is far from complete. Several hundred more Komi warriors are likely to rest on Ukrainian soil and might never be accounted for.

Eduard Pashnin served as a senior rifleman in an infantry unit. He was a war veteran with fighting experiences from Chechnya in the late 1990s. In October 2023, the 55-year old grandfather again signed up for war. Nine months later he was reported killed.

Photos from Pashin’s social media pages show a military man and a family man. He happily poses on camera together with fellow war veterans, as well as with his two grandchildren.

Eduard Pashnin from the Ust-Kulomsky area in the Komi Republic is reported to have been killed in Ukraine on the 30th of July 2023. Here with grandkids in his home village. Photo: Pashnin on social media OK

According to local authorities in the Ust-Kolomsky area, Pashnin underwent training in Sputnik, the base of the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade in the Kola Peninsula, ahead of his deployment in Ukraine.

Eduard Pashnin became the 24th warrior from the Ust-Kolomsky municipality that have been killed since the onslaught started in February 2022. Only since April this year, a total of five local men have vanished. The population of the remote and far northern municipality is about 21 thousand.

Judging from the overview, the number of killed Komi men is significantly higher in 2024 than in 2023. The figures indicate that a total of 278 local men vanished in 2023. The figure for 2024 (until 1st of August) is 218. 

A closer look at the last 100 Komi men killed show that one forth were from the regional capital of Syktyvkar. Many others are from regional towns like Ukhta, Sosnogorsk, Pechora, Inta and Vorkuta. The Komi Republic has a population of 720,000.

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