That war killed 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers, and devastated large swathes of Hezbollah's strongholds.
Russian military prestige has certainly taken a hit since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but it is also proving to be an invaluable source of experienced soldiers and generals.
Meanwhile, Saturday PUNCH gathered that on Thursday night, soldiers numbering hundreds engaged some militants at the Ibafo area of Ogun State. Residents said the soldiers stormed the area in eight trucks and killed some of the militants.
"This is a small proportion of what we found in the battlezone and about 15 per cent are Iranian-made. "These are their mortars, their fuses and their explosives.
With so many coffins arriving in France from a foreign country, it would be impossible to cover up the mass deaths of professional soldiers," Medvedev wrote on March 20.
The veterans minister, who is also a reservist, said the casualty rate suffered by Russian forces in Ukraine - killed and injured - is around 1,500 soldiers a day.
Since October, the unabating exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Hezbollah have killed hundreds of mostly fighters in Lebanon, and dozens including soldiers on the Israeli side.
This has been done by nationalizing local wealth and expelling French soldiers from Burkina Faso, noting that they wish to tackle their security problem independently.
"Time is ripe to immediately take the soldiers to barracks to prepare themselves for any eventuality as the time taken to transition from internal security mode to operational mode takes quite some time," the statement read.
In 2007, the Small Arms Survey found that Switzerland had the third-highest ratio of civilian firearms per 100 residents (46), outdone by only the US (89) and Yemen (55). But it seems that figure has dropped over the past decade.