Russia Losses: Ukrainian Air Force destroys ammunition depots, bases and bridges
Created: 09/22/2022, 04:58 am
By: Helena Gries, Teresa Toth, Karolin Schäfer, Moritz Serif, Nadja Austel, Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier, Christian Stör
Ukraine's counteroffensive continues.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense publishes Russia's casualty statistics.
The news ticker.
Editor's note:
You can read news about Russian losses in the Ukraine conflict in this news ticker.
Some of the information comes from warring factions in the Ukraine war and cannot be checked directly and independently.
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On the 210th day of the Ukraine war, according to a statement from the General Staff, Ukrainian troops repelled attacks on five settlements in eastern Ukraine.
In addition, the Ukrainian Air Force reports 32 attacks in which 17 military bases, an ammunition depot and ten air defense system sites were destroyed.
In addition, several checkpoints and pontoon bridges were hit.
Partial mobilization in Russia leads to mass exodus: flights fully booked for days
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After the announcement of partial mobilization in Russia, more and more conscripts are trying to leave the country so as not to have to fight in Ukraine.
As the news portal
Ukrainska Pravda
reports, citing a Russian news agency, all flights to visa-free countries, including Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, will be sold out on the websites of Russian airlines in the next few days.
Ukrainian soldiers ride on an armored personnel carrier in the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, which was recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces.
© Oleksii Chumachenko/dpa
According to the report by the
RBK
news agency , direct flights from Moscow to Istanbul can only be booked again on Friday (September 23), the cheapest ticket costs around 76,000 rubles (approx. 1255 euros).
According to research by
Ukrainska Pravda
on the website of the Russian airline Aeroflot, flights cost at least 930 euros on Wednesday afternoon and were not available again until Sunday (September 25).
Flight tickets were only available for Saturday on the Turkish Airlines website: for the equivalent of over 1340 euros.
Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Kyiv attributes partial mobilization to a lack of personnel
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Vladimir Putin has ordered immediate partial mobilization in Russia.
The Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych interpreted the step as meaning that the high losses are forcing Russia to take this measure.
"There are more than 100,000 killed and wounded, closer to 150,000," wrote Arestovych.
The next 150,000 have already been mentally written off.
"How good it is to be Russian under Putin," he wrote wryly.
Moscow had previously presented figures on its own army's losses in the Ukraine war for the first time since the end of March.
According to this, Russia has so far had to mourn 5937 dead military personnel.
However, independent observers consider the real losses to be many times higher than stated.
The Ukrainian general staff speaks of more than 55,000 fallen Russian soldiers (see update from 9:05 a.m.).
News about the Ukraine war: The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense publishes Russian casualties
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has updated the statistics on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war.
Accordingly, 55,110 soldiers fell - an overview.
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Soldiers:
55,110
Aircraft:
253
Helicopters:
217
Tanks:
2227
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4748
Artillery systems:
1340
Air defense systems:
168
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
318
Cars and other vehicles:
3610
Ships:
16
Unmanned Combat Drones:
932
As of Wednesday 21 September 2022
The information on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war comes from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
They cannot be independently verified.
The Kremlin itself gives very little information about its own losses.
Ukraine War News: Ukraine defeats 151 Russian troops
Update from Wednesday, September 21, 7:40 a.m.:
The Ukrainian military claims to have defeated 151 Russian troops in southern Ukraine on September 20.
This is reported
by The Kyiv Independent
.
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According to the Ukrainian task force “South”, Ukrainian forces also destroyed seven tanks, 19 armored and military vehicles, four Msta-S and Msta-B howitzers and other equipment.
News about the Ukraine war: military jet and kamikaze drone shot down
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Early on Tuesday evening, soldiers of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Cherson region fended off an attack by a Russian aircraft and instead shot down the Su-25 attack jet.
This is reported by the
Ukrainska Pravda
news portal , which cites information shared by the military leadership of the Ukrainian Air Force on Facebook.
Shortly before, soldiers in the Mykolayiv region shot down an Iranian-made kamikaze drone.
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Russia suffers immense losses in the Ukraine war.
That is why Moscow is apparently emptying important air defense bases in order to supply the armed forces in Ukraine with weapons.
This emerges from satellite images, as reported by the Finnish news agency
Yleisradio Oy
.
According to this, Russia is moving anti-aircraft missiles from St. Petersburg towards Ukraine.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia's military resorts to old weapons - military ship sunk
The equipment is therefore largely the S-300 air defense system.
The guided missiles date from the 1970s and have a shorter range than newer missiles.
However, Russia has reportedly upgraded Soviet-era equipment with GPS technology, allowing them to attack more specific targets.
Update from Tuesday, September 20, 7:05 a.m .:
Ukrainian forces are said to have sunk a Russian military ship on the Dnipro River in the Kherson Oblast.
This was reported by the Southern Operations Command of Ukraine on September 19 on Facebook.
The Ukrainian military reportedly sank a Russian barge laden with military personnel, equipment and weapons as it attempted to cross the Dnipro near Nova Kakhovka and Kozatske.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive is undermining the already low morale among Russian troops.
According to a report by Ukrajinska Pravda
, this is causing panic among Kremlin deputies and decision-makers .
News on the Ukraine war: Occupied settlement in Luhansk liberated - Heavy fighting expected
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The liberation of regions in Ukraine occupied by Russia is progressing.
According to Ukrainian sources, the town of Bilohorivka in the east of the country has been recaptured.
However, the liberation in the Luhansk region was more difficult than in Kharkiv due to the large number of Russian armed forces, said the region's governor, Serhiy Hajdaj.
"This element of surprise will no longer be there," Hajdaj said in an interview with Ukrainian radio station
NV
.
“Those who fled from the direction of Kharkiv are in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.” Fierce fighting is now taking place there.
Losses for Russia: Russian troops surrounded
First report from Monday, September 19:
Russian troops are surrounded in southern Ukraine between the Ukrainian army and the banks of the Dnipro River.
"The fire control that we maintain over the crossings and transport routes across the Dnipro River makes them realize that they are caught between Ukrainian forces and the right bank of the river - namely the units stationed in that part of the Kherson Oblast," Nataliia Humeniuk said , spokeswoman for the Southern Task Force, in a Ukrainian news program.
The occupiers were offered to lay down their arms and surrender.
"Therefore, they were offered an interim solution under the auspices of international humanitarian law or a return to their homes," Humeniuk said.
According to the spokeswoman, Ukraine is aware that some Russian soldiers lack morale and see no point in serving at the front.
"They see the example of the Eastern Front and it is very discouraging for them because they understand that such a course is also possible," Humeniuk said.
In recent weeks and months, the Antonivka Bridge, which connects the river banks, has been repeatedly shelled by the Russian army.
Russia used the bridge to transport essential goods such as ammunition, fuel, and food.
(with agencies)