Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russia is estimated to have spent hundreds of billions of rubles on its intervention in Syria, which also cost the lives of hundreds of Russian troops. Now the entire investment is likely to be lost with the Assad regime's probable imminent fall. ⬇️

https://x.com/kjovano/status/1864908678022775180

2/ The independent Russian publication Agency News has compiled some estimates of the costs of Russia's nine-year intervention in Syria between 2013-2024. No official figures have been published apart from Putin stating the cost as 33 billion rubles ($570m then) in 2016.

3/ The Russian government also provided Syria with tens of millions of dollars' worth of 'charitable aid' in the form of goods, according to official customs data.

4/ Various estimates have been made for the daily cost of Russian military operations in Syria: $2.3 to $4 million (IHS Jane's), €2.7 million (Kommersant-Dengi), $2.5 million (RBC), $4 to $8 million (RUSI).

5/ The total cost of the intervention was estimated at 58 billion rubles ($1 billion) by September 2016, while the Yabloko party estimated in July 2017 that 140 billion rubles ($2.4 billion) had been spent by that time.

6/ Radio Liberty estimated in early March 2018 that Russia's expenses by then could range from 172 to 245 billion rubles. Most of this was accounted for by air strikes (from 143 billion to 209 billion rubles) and missiles (from 5.98 billion to 9.97 billion rubles).

7/ Russia also sustained significant losses. Between 16.94 billion and 19.14 billion rubles worth of military equipment is estimated to have been lost. At least 131 Russians were reported to have died in Syria between January and October of 2017.

8/ In one incident alone in 2018, a minimum of several dozen Wagner Group mercenaries were killed when they attempted to attack a US outpost in eastern Syria. It's likely that the total Russian death toll since 2011 is in at least the high hundreds.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1622891726070226945

9/ Russia has also invested heavily in its naval base in Tartus, which it has used since 1971, and in the Hmeimim Air Base near Latakia. With the rapid collapse of the Assad regime, it's now looking likely that Russia's investment in Syria will have been futile. /end

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