Kosovo Forces fatalities

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Since the Kosovo Force (KFOR) entered Kosovo in June 1999, following the Kosovo War to stabilize the province of Serbia, 157 KFOR soldiers from various nations have been killed, mostly in accidents.^[1] The dead include: 39 Unidentified, 34 Slovak, 18 American, 13 German, 12 Russian, 8 British, 6 Italian, 5 French, 5 Polish, 3 Spanish, 3 Ukrainian, 2 Turkish, 1 Austrian, 1 Danish, 1 Dutch, 1 Greek, 1 Norwegian, 1 Romanian, 1 Swedish and 1 United Arab Emirates soldier.

[edit] List of KFOR fatalities

Date of Death	Name	Rank	Country	Cause of Death	Location of Death
17/06/99	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Suicide[2]	FYR Macedonia
21/06/99	Gareth Evans	Lieutenant	United Kingdom	Unexploded NATO bomb[3]	Negrovce, 16 miles west of Pristina
21/06/99	Balaram Rai	Sergeant	United Kingdom	Unexploded NATO bomb[4]	Negrovce, 16 miles west of Pristina
24/06/99	Unknown	Unknown	Italy	Weapons discharge	Pec
04/07/99	Anthony William Gilman	Specialist	United States	Traffic accident [5]	FYR Macedonia
17/07/99	Sherwood Brim	Specialist	United States	APC rollover[6]	Domorovce, 10 miles northeast of Gnjilane
17/07/99	William Wright	Specialist	United States	APC rollover[7]	Domorovce, 10 miles northeast of Gnjilane
29/07/99	Igor A. Katz	Specialist	United States	Suicide[8]	Urosevac
02/08/99	Benjamin McGill	Private First Class	United States	Electrocuted[9][10]	Babuski, near Urosevac
01/10/99	Unknown	Unknown	Russia	Weapons discharge[11]	Banja
13/09/99	Anastasios Dinakis	Sergeant	Greece	Weapons discharge[12]	Thessaloniki (wounded in Urosevac)
22/09/99	Huseyin Kutlu	Unknown	Turkey	Unexploded NATO bomb[13]	Dragas
01/10/99	Jason Pringle	Sergeant	United States	Parachute Malfunction [14]	Pozaranje, south of Urosevac
12/10/99	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Traffic accident	Kosovo
12/10/99	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Traffic accident	Kosovo
21/10/99	Unknown	Unknown	United States	Suicide[15]	Urosevac
30/10/99	Unknown	Staff Sergeant	Germany	Traffic accident[16]	Grncare, 3 km east of Prizren
11/12/99	Unknown	Captain	Poland	Accidental grenade explosion[17]	Piskavica
15/12/99	Joseph E. Suponcic	Staff Sergeant	United States	Land mine explosion[18]	Kosovska Kamenica
13/01/00	Unknown	Unknown	Russia	Electrocuted	Pristina
20/01/00	Unknown	Unknown	Austria	Electrocuted	Kosovo
21/01/00	Unknown	Unknown	Netherlands	Heart attack	Kosovo
01/02/00	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Illness	Kosovo
04/02/00	Unknown	Unknown	Russia	Electrocuted	Pristina
29/02/00	Igor Korshunov	Private	Russia	Shot and killed	Srbica
30/03/00	Gilles Raymond	First Lieutenant	France	Shot and killed[19]	Kosovska Mitrovica
03/04/00	Unknown	Corporal	Italy	Weapons discharge[20]	Pec
22/04/00	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Suicide[21]	Kosovo
26/04/00	Unknown	Unknown	Norway	Traffic accident[22]	Obilic
05/05/00	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Traffic accident	FYR Macedonia
21/05/99	Unknown	Unknown	Poland	Weapons discharge	Kosovo
09/06/00	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Traffic accident	FYR Macedonia
09/06/00	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Traffic accident	FYR Macedonia
10/07/00	Lubomyr Tovkan	Junior Sergeant	Ukraine	Vehicle rollover[23]	Kosovo
29/07/00	Unknown	Unknown	Russia	Traffic accident	Kosovo
14/08/00	Unknown	Unknown	Poland	Fell from truck	Kosovo
03/09/00	Luigi Nardone	Private	Italy	Suicide	Decani
23/10/00	Geoffroy Simonnet	Gendarmerie	France	Suicide	Kosovska Mitrovica
18/11/00	Donald J. Heatherly	Private First Class	United States	Suicide	Urosevac
24/11/00	Chad Burkhart	Gunners Mate 2nd Class	United States	Fell from a helicopter	Urosevac
18/12/00	Harrifou Abdoul Bastoi	Corporal	France	Accidental grenade explosion	Kosovska Mitrovica
03/01/01	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Illness	Kosovo
26/03/01	Unknown	Unknown	United Arab Emirates	Traffic accident	Kosovo
09/04/01	Andrew Crous	Captain	United Kingdom	Helicopter crash[24]	Kosovo-Macedonia border
09/04/01	James Maguire	Flight Lieutenant	United Kingdom	Helicopter crash[25]	Kosovo-Macedonia border
11/04/01	Mikhail Shuitsev	Sergeant	Russia	Shot and killed[26]	Kosovo
12/04/01	Adam Slater	Trooper	United Kingdom	Land mine explosion[27]	Kosovo-Macedonia border
15/05/01	Andrei Kuznetsov	Private	Russia	Traffic accident	Kosovo
01/06/01	James Sakofsky	Specialist	United States	Traffic accident	Kosovo
23/06/01	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Traffic accident	Kosovo
02/08/01	Unknown	Unknown	Germany	Suicide[28]	Prizren
10/08/01	Unknown	Unknown	Italy	Fell from a helicopter	Kosovo
10/08/01	Unknown	Unknown	Italy	Fell from a helicopter	Kosovo
22/08/01	Javier del Castillo Peinado	Private	Spain	Traffic accident	Kosovo
26/08/01	Ian Collins	Sapper	United Kingdom	Intentionally struck by a lump of concrete[29]	FYR Macedonia
25/10/01	Stanislav Ivanov	Unknown	Russia	Shot and killed[30]	Korminjane, near Kosovska Mitrovica
15/12/01	Saschca Schmidtke	Private	Germany	Weapons discharge	Kosovo
18/12/01	James Carl Rogers	Private	United Kingdom	Weapons discharge[31]	Pristina
13/02/02	Unknown	Unknown	France	Traffic Accident[32]	Kosovo
05/03/02	Unknown	Unknown	United States	Accident	Kosovo
24/03/02	Emanoil Ciobanu	Sergeant Major	Romania	Electrocuted[33][34]	Klina, 30 miles west of Pristina
08/05/02	Unknown	Unknown	Italy	Land mine explosion[35]	Kosovo-Macedonia border, FYR Macedonia
21/07/02	Alexander Kolodyazhny	Captain	Russia	Traffic accident[36][37]	Kosovo
15/01/03	Justin D.Jasek	Private First Class	United States	Suicide[38]	Vitina, 30 miles east of Pristina
04/03/03	Unknown	Unknown	Poland	Land mine explosion[39]	Kosovo-Macedonia border, FYR Macedonia
04/03/03	Unknown	Unknown	Poland	Land mine explosion[40]	Kosovo-Macedonia border, FYR Macedonia
27/04/03	Stanford Scott Sullivan	Captain	United States	Suicide[41]	Dobrocane, near Gnjilane
08/06/03	Devon DeSouza	Chief Warrant Officer 1	United States	Helicopter crash[42]	Novo Brdo, 12 miles north of Gnjilane
08/06/03	Andrew Robbins	Chief Warrant Officer 3	United States	Helicopter crash[43]	Novo Brdo, 12 miles north of Gnjilane
05/08/03	Unknown	Unknown	France	Suicide[44]	Leposavic, 45 miles north of Pristina
13/09/03	Martin Walberg	Private	Sweden	Accidental explosion[45]	Pristina
19/10/04	Unknown	Unknown	United Kingdom	Traffic accident[46]	Glogovac
28/05/05	Volodymyr Nazarenko	Senior Warrant Officer	Ukraine	Suicide[47][48]	Breza, south of Pristina
13/07/06	Unknown	Unknown	France	APC rollover[49]	Kosovo
22/06/07	Unknown	Unknown	Switzerland	APC rollover[50]	Kosovo
22/06/07	Mykola Tkachuk	Junior Sergeant	Ukraine	BRDM-2 rollover[51]	Leposavic, 40 miles north of Pristina
10/09/07	Unknown	Unknown	United States	Traffic accident[52]	Caglavica, near Pristina
18/10/07	Unknown	Unknown	Spain	Traffic accident[53]	Western Kosovo
18/10/07	Unknown	Unknown	Spain	Traffic accident[54]	Western Kosovo

Three unidentified  Russian soldiers were shot and killed in 2001.^[55]
One unidentified soldier from  Denmark was killed in a traffic accident in 2003.
An unidentified soldier from  Turkey was killed by a land mine explosion in 2003.
34  Slovakian soldiers were killed when their military plane crashed in Hungary while returning them from Kosovo to Slovakia on January 20, 2006.^[56]
Another 39 NATO soldiers of unknown nationalities were killed. This includes: 3 in traffic accidents and 1 in an unexploded ordnance explosion in 1999, 1 in a traffic accident in 2000, 1 in a riot between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica in 2001, 1 in a traffic accident in Skopje in FYR Macedonia in 2002, 3 in various accidents and 1 in a land mine explosion in 2002 and 1 in a traffic accident in 2007.^[57][58]

[edit] List of UNMIK police fatalities

Seven UNMIK police officers have been killed in Kosovo since 1999, in addition to the KFOR fatalities.^[59] The dead include: 2 American, 1 Indian, 1 Jordanian, 1 Nigerian, 1 Phillipino and 1 Ukranian police officer.

Date of Death	Name	Country	Cause of Death	Location of Death
05/08/03	Satish Menon	India	Sniper attack[60]	Stalina, 45 km from Pristina
23/03/04	Unknown	Philippines	Shot and killed[61]	Podujevo
18/04/04	Unknown	Jordan	Shot and killed[62]	Kosovska Mitrovica
18/04/04	Unknown	United States	Shot and killed[63]	Kosovska Mitrovica
18/04/04	Unknown	United States	Shot and killed[64]	Kosovska Mitrovica
13/01/05	Unknown	Nigeria	Bomb attack[65]	Prizren
17/03/08	Ihor Kynal	Ukraine	Hand grenade attack[66]	Kosovska Mitrovica

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