Cargo 200 (code name)

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Cargo 200 (

corpses of soldiers contained in zinc-lined coffins for air transportation. Unofficially, Cargo 200 is used to refer to all bodies of the dead being transported away from the battlefield, and has also become a euphemism
for irretrievable losses of manpower in a conflict.

Origins

The first appearance of Cargo 200 is unknown, except that it came into use in the mid-1980s during the

Ministry of Defense of the USSR
Order No. 200, issued during the on October 8, 1984, coincidentally setting the standardized maximum weight for the air transportation of a deceased soldier's body at 200 kilograms (440 lb). The term saw widespread use in the Soviet military by the late 1980s, spawning the related code words Cargo 300 for the transportation of wounded personnel, and Cargo 100 for the transportation of munitions.

Modern usage

The term Cargo 200 has received new international attention since the start of the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5][6][7] Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi was nicknamed "General 200" in reference to the term Cargo 200 due to pursuing bloody Soviet-style military tactics which resulted in heavy Ukrainian casualites during the Battle of Bakhmut.[8]

Related military code words

  • Cargo 100: Ammunition
  • Cargo 300: Wounded
  • Cargo 400: concussion Missing or captured
  • Cargo 500: Medical Supplies. After start of Russo-Ukrainian War used to refer to Refusniks (Soldiers who refuse to fight)
  • Cargo 600:
    Prisoners of War
  • Cargo 700: Cash or Other Valuables
  • Cargo 800: "Special" cargo related to
    weapons of mass destruction

See also

References

  1. ^ Brooke, James (18 October 2011). "Russian Killings of Tajik Migrant Workers — Now at a Level with American Lynchings in the 1930s?". blogs.voanews.com. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  2. ^ ТУРЧЕНКОВА, Мария (3 June 2014). "Груз 200. Продолжение" [Cargo 200. Continued]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Ukraine crisis: Russian 'Cargo 200' crossed border - OSCE". BBC News Online. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Місія «Евакуація 200" [Mission "Evacuation 200"]. mil.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). 22 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Ukraine Launches Website for Russians to Find Killed Soldiers". The Moscow Times. February 27, 2022.
  6. ^ "Website 200rf.com launched for Russians to find family members captured in killed in action during the invasion of Ukraine". Ukrayinska Pravda.
  7. ^ "Ukraine launches website to help Russian families find their relatives killed in combat". The Kyiv Independent. February 27, 2022.
  8. ^ Zaluzhny is out, the ‘butcher’ is in