As of spring 2019, there have been 116 officially confirmed Russian Armed Forces fatalities in the war.[9] Also, two investigative groups, Fontanka and the Moscow-based Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), reported a conservative estimate of at least 73–101 private military contractors (PMCs) being killed between October 2015 and mid-December 2017,[10] 40–60 of whom died during the first several months of 2017, according to Fontanka.[11] The founder of CIT stated the PMCs' death toll was at least 100–200,[12] while another CIT blogger said at least 150 were killed and more than 900 were wounded.[13] They belonged to the Russian company "Wagner".[10] One more PMC was killed in late December 2017.[14] In addition, at least 23 fighters have been killed that were possibly regular military, but their status has not been officially confirmed.[15]