Ukraine retakes territory in the south - Russia reports heavy casualties

Created: 03/29/2022, 11:39 am

By: Daniel Dillmann

There is still no end in sight to the Ukraine war.

But Russia seems ready to make concessions due to ever increasing losses.

The news ticker.

• More than a month ago, Russia* invaded Ukraine*, starting the Ukraine War*.

• But the army of Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin * has not yet succeeded in taking large cities such as Kyiv * or Mariupol.

  In addition, the resistance of the population in the occupied areas continues.

• Is Moscow* giving in?

  A meeting in Turkey* could help peace in the Ukraine conflict* to break through.

  All information in our new ticker.

Kyiv - In the Ukraine war, the army apparently succeeded in repelling the attackers from Russia in several places.

According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army has recaptured areas around the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.

"The occupiers are no closer than 40 kilometers from the city," said the head of the city's military administration, Olexander Wilkul, in a video message published on Facebook on Tuesday.

Some Russian units have withdrawn across the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region to neighboring Cherson.

This information cannot be independently verified.

Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy*.

More than 600,000 people lived there before the start of the Ukraine war.

Youths walk past a damaged Russian tank some 400 km east of the capital Kyiv.

© Efrem Lukatsky/dpa

Ukraine News: Russia suffers heavy casualties

Russia is intensifying the artillery and rocket fire on the large cities in Ukraine, probably also because of the losses in the Ukraine war.

In addition to the already hard-fought cities like Kyiv and Mariupol, there are now also corresponding reports from the center of Ukraine.

The city of Nikopol is said to be under Russian rocket fire.

The city is in close proximity to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

According to information from the news portal Kyiv Independent, the losses that Russia is suffering in the Ukraine war are increasing.

According to unconfirmed information, the Kremlin army has already lost more than 17,000 soldiers.

The unconfirmed list of casualties is long.

Ukraine News: List of all Russian losses in the attack on Ukraine

• 17,200 soldiers

• 127 aircraft

• 129 helicopters

• 597 tanks

• 303 artillery systems

• 1710 Armored Troop Carriers

• 4 short-range missile systems

• 96 multiple rocket launcher artillery systems

• 7 warships

• 1178 vehicles

• 73 tanker trucks

• 71 unmanned aircraft (drones)

• 54 air defense systems

• 21 special vehicles

The news portal Kyiv Independent refers to the information on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war on information from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and information from the secret services in the West.

News from the Ukraine: resistance of the population against occupying power from Russia

The only thing that seems certain so far is that Russia will face strong resistance in its attack on Ukraine - both from the army and from the population.

This also applies to Kherson, the only major city in the country that Russia has been able to bring under its control since the beginning of the Ukraine war.

But even in the port city in the south of Ukraine, people are fighting back against the occupation.

According to information from the news portal Kyivpost, the Russian soldiers are increasingly frustrated by the ongoing protests.

The consequences would be arrests and a curfew that applies from 3 p.m.

While the battle for cities like Kyiv and Mariupol continues, negotiations are taking place in Istanbul over a possible peace in Ukraine.

Delegations from both parties arrived on Sunday at the invitation of Turkey.

(Daniel Dillmann)