Soviets Admit 13,310 Deaths in Afghanistan
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MOSCOW — A Soviet army spokesman today said 13,310 Soviet troops have been killed in Afghanistan and 35,478 wounded since the Soviet Union entered the Afghan war in December, 1979.
In the first official statement on casualties from the war, Gen. Alexei D. Lizichev, head of the army and navy political departments, also told a news conference that 311 Soviets have disappeared. They are believed to have been captured by rebels or to have deserted.
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