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Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia does not achieve war goals - despite reduced focus

2022-05-31T03:25:42.231Z


Ukraine war: "Devastating casualties" for Russia - new details known Created: 05/31/2022, 05:02 By: Sandra Kathe, Tobias Utz, Lukas Zigo, Vincent Büssow, Nail Akkoyun, Sophia Lother The Russian army has to accept heavy losses in the Ukraine war: an overview in the news ticker. Russian Losses: The US estimates that Russia alone lost "about 1000 tanks". Russia is faltering in the Ukraine war: Al


Ukraine war: "Devastating casualties" for Russia - new details known

Created: 05/31/2022, 05:02

By: Sandra Kathe, Tobias Utz, Lukas Zigo, Vincent Büssow, Nail Akkoyun, Sophia Lother

The Russian army has to accept heavy losses in the Ukraine war: an overview in the news ticker.

  • Russian Losses:

    The US estimates that Russia alone lost "about 1000 tanks".

  • Russia is faltering in the Ukraine war:

    Although Vladimir Putin has scaled back the targets in the Ukraine war, his army is making little progress worth mentioning.

  • Military expert comments

    : He does not see Russia defeated in the Ukraine war and explains Putin's overall strategy.

This ticker on Russia's heavy losses in the Ukraine war has ended: You can read all the latest developments in this article.

+++ 10.45 a.m .:

According to an assessment by the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian army has lost numerous battalion and brigade commanders.

This is based on information from the secret service.

Accordingly, young commanders in particular have to organize operations at the front themselves, even though they lack experience and equipment.

According to the British Ministry of Defence, this resulted in “devastating losses”.

A destroyed Russian army tank photographed on March 29 near the Donbass town of Trostianets.

© Fadel Senna / AFP

Update from Monday, May 30th, 2022, 9:00 a.m.:

The Ukrainian general staff published the latest data on Russia's heavy losses in the Ukraine war on Sunday.

According to statistics shared on Twitter by news portal Kyiv Independent, the Russian army has already lost more than 1,338 tanks and 207 military aircraft since the invasion began on February 24.

In the meantime, 30,150 Russian soldiers have also fallen.

The information cannot be independently verified.

The Kremlin hasn't given any specific figures on casualties in the war for weeks.

The latest statement came from President Vladimir Putin in his speech on May 9, the "Day of Victory" over Nazi Germany.

At the time, he acknowledged that there were heavy casualties for Russia.

However, he did not give any further details.

Update from Saturday, May 28, 8:50 a.m.:

Russia's aggressive push in Donbass and other parts of Ukraine could backfire - at least according to Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov.

The fact that Russia is using 50-year-old T-62 tanks means "that the second largest army in the world has run out of modernized equipment".

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnskyj also struck a confident note in his nightly video address.

“If the occupiers think that Lyman or Sieverodonetsk will belong to them, then they are mistaken.

Donbass will be Ukrainian,” he said.

Ukraine war: Russia is said to have lost almost 30,000 soldiers

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According to the latest assessment by the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian army is apparently using 50-year-old tanks in the Ukraine war.

This primarily affects the troops in southern Ukraine, for example around Mariupol.

The obsolete tanks are said to be "T62" models in particular, the ministry reports, citing British intelligence information.

The use of the 50-year-old tanks shows "Russia's lack of modern and combat-ready equipment".

The information cannot be independently verified.

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Update from Friday, May 27, 7:00

a.m.: Sievjerodonetsk in the Luhansk region was shelled with Russian artillery and from the air on Thursday (May 26), according to Governor Serhiy Hajday.

The Ukrainian general staff announced that the attack on the city and its suburb Borivske was unsuccessful.

The military information was not independently verifiable.

However, in another nearby village, in Ustynivka, the Russian side was said to have achieved a partial victory.

The major cities of Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk are currently Ukraine's extreme outposts in the east.

But there are also fights in the rear of these cities, which means that Ukrainian troops are threatened with being cordoned off.

The city of Lyman has been lost on the north side of this possible pocket, Presidential Advisor Olexy Arestovych confirmed on Ukrainian television.

On the south side there was fighting for the towns of Komyshuvahka, Nirkove and Berestove.

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Heavy losses in the Ukraine war: Russia lost "about 1000 tanks".

+++ 9.35 p.m .: 

The Russian troops have lost “about 1000 tanks” and “well over 350 artillery pieces” in the Ukraine war, a senior US defense official told journalists.

In addition, Russia lost "nearly three dozen fighter-bombers and more than 50 helicopters."

Despite these losses, Russian units "still have most of their equipment available," the official added.

"They invested a large part of their equipment and personnel in this fight and the Ukrainians suffered casualties, the Russians suffered casualties."

The government official's outlook on the Ukraine war is bleak: "The Russians have a superiority here in terms of the number of resources they can deploy to this fight in terms of people, equipment and weapons, and we just have to take that into account. "

Ukraine war: Russian soldier speaks about poor preparation

+++ 1:00 p.m .:

A Russian soldier spoke to the Guardian about the poor preparation of the Russian army.

The 21-year-old was initially stationed in Crimea before his unit was sent to war.

"They only told us about it at the very last moment, the night before the invasion," reports the young Russian soldier.

It is said that he was sent to the Ukraine war "completely unprepared".

When his unit got into a firefight with the Ukrainian troops, surrender was the only option: “It was our first confrontation with the enemy;

we hadn't even fired a shot.

They ambushed us and we couldn't fight back.

We had to surrender.” After 45 days in Ukrainian captivity, the 21-year-old was exchanged.

Ukraine War: Heavy casualties for Russia - Nearly 30,000 soldiers dead

+++ 10.15 a.m .:

The Ukrainian General Staff has again published data on Russia’s losses in the war.

According to this, almost 30,000 soldiers have fallen from the Russian army, rounded up by the general staff of 29,600 dead armed forces.

In addition, the Russian military lost around 1,300 tanks, 200 planes and 170 helicopters.

The information cannot be independently verified.

According to one report, the army is nevertheless preparing a new offensive.

Update from Thursday, May 26, 6:30 a.m .:

In the Kharkiv region in the Donbass, the losses of the Russian army are apparently increasing.

Video recordings published by the Nexta medium on Twitter probably show destroyed military equipment.

The recordings cannot be verified or independently checked.

However, the "Z" symbol can be seen on several tanks seen in the Nexta video.

It has been spotted on numerous Russian Army military equipment.

Despite heavy losses, Russia is currently massing troops in the Donbass.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also took part in the visit three months after the start of Russia's offensive against the neighboring country.

Russia rarely provides information on the number of victims in the Ukraine conflict.

The last figures were published on March 25th.

At that time, the army put the number of soldiers killed at 1,351 and those injured at 3,825.

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Vladimir Putin visited injured soldiers for the first time during the military operation in Ukraine (see update from 12:30 p.m.).

The Russian President talked to several soldiers about their hometowns and their family situation, as shown on Russian television.

The soldiers stood upright next to their beds, their injuries not visible. 

Ukraine war: Russian soldiers 'left to drown' in Moskva sinking

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According to reports, Russian forces have carried out an operation to recover the dead from the sunken flagship "Moskva".

The cruiser was sunk by a suspected Ukrainian missile attack on April 14.

The enormous death toll has still not been officially confirmed by Russia.

However, Ukrainian military intelligence claims Moscow conducted a two-week salvage operation involving seven ships after the sinking.

The Moskva is the largest warship sunk since World War II.

"They recovered the bodies, removed all classified equipment and cleaned the cruiser," said Vadim Skibitskyi, spokesman for the Kiev Defense Ministry's main intelligence department.

Young marines were "left to drown" while "officers fled the ship like rats."

Ukraine war: Russia plans new strategy in the face of heavy losses

Update from Wednesday, May 25, 8:15 a.m .:

In view of heavy losses in the Ukraine war, the Russian troops are now changing their strategy in Donbass.

This has been observed by the Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank.

According to the latest analysis, "Russian forces have probably abandoned efforts to encircle large Ukrainian formations in eastern Ukraine."

The Russian soldiers "are instead trying to secure smaller encirclements and focus on Sievierodonetsk," the think tank reports Wednesday morning (May 24).

This is also confirmed by the Ukrainian general staff: According to this, Russia is currently assembling troops in the Donbass.

+++ 3:00 p.m .:

Russia’s army is weakened, the Kremlin’s war plans fail.

President Putin needs additional personnel to cover up the heavy losses in the Ukraine war.

Therefore, an amendment to the law has now been tabled in the State Duma, according to which the age limit for military service is to be abolished.

Previously, this was 40 years for the Russian population.



“Highly professional specialists are needed for the use of high-precision weapons, as well as the operation of weapons and military equipment.

Experience has shown that specialization occurs between the ages of 40 and 45,” says the justification for the change in the law.

Ukraine War: Heavy Losses for Russia - Military Base Apparently Destroyed

Update from Tuesday, May 24, 11:30 a.m .:

Ukrainian troops apparently fired on and destroyed a Russian military base.

That's what the 128th Transcarpathian Mountaineering Brigade said, according to a Daily Mail report on Monday.

Accordingly, weapons were used, which were delivered from NATO countries.

The military base was fired on from a distance of twelve miles (about 20 kilometers).

According to the report, numerous Russian soldiers were killed.

The information provided by the Ukrainian mountain infantry brigade cannot be independently verified.

War in Ukraine: Kharkiv reopens metro system

+++ 10:15 p.m.:

Mayor of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov announced that the city's metro system will be operational again on Tuesday (May 24) after months of serving as a haven for citizens, who wanted to escape the Russian bombardment.

"Tomorrow, May 24, we will start the subway again," Terekhov said in a televised address.

“All lines will be put into operation.

Subway service will run from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The intervals will not be the same as in peacetime.

The subway depot was damaged during the bombing and shelling, so the intervals will be longer.

Heavy losses in the Ukraine war: military expert comments on Putin's overall strategy

+++ 8.30 p.m .:

At CNN, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also commented on Monday (May 23) about a possible “overall strategy” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This is "unknown".

Asked if Putin is shifting his long-term strategy to using weapons in areas like food, energy and immigration, Austin said the world has seen the Russian leader "use a number of different levers from the start."

"We've seen them move really slowly and unsuccessfully on the battlefield, and you would expect him to try to use other levers of power or other instruments of power, and he does.

But what his overall strategy is, that is unknown,” said the expert.

Heavy losses in the Ukraine war: military experts see Russia as undefeated

+++ 5.45 p.m.:

Mick Ryan, a military expert from Australia, expects the Russian army to change strategy soon.

The background to his analysis, which he published on Twitter, among other things, is that Russia "still has problems" in "making great progress" - an allusion to the greatly slowed offensive in Donbass.

Ryan's approach is reflected, among other things, in an assessment by the Ukrainian general staff.

Those responsible recently spoke of "phase three" of the Ukraine war, in which the Russian military was only trying to secure areas it had won instead of attacking again.

Against the background of heavy losses, Ryan also predicts that there will be resource shortages "in the next few months".

The military expert emphasizes in his analysis that Russia is by no means defeated.

Nevertheless, he expects the change of strategy already mentioned - from the offensive to the defensive.

However, Ryan sees problems for Russia's army in this.

"The Ukrainians could decide where and when to attack the Russians," he emphasizes in his analysis.

In addition, the Russian military is not trained to administer the areas that have already been conquered.

This is one of the reasons why the Kremlin has appointed governors, as in Cherson, where an illegal referendum will soon take place.

The administration also entails high, uncalculated costs, according to Ryan.

In addition, there may be a resurgence of regional movements in southern and eastern Ukraine.

Western arms shipments may play a major role in this.

To person

Mick Ryan is a retired Australian Army Major General.

He was in command at the platoon, squadron, regiment, task force, and brigade levels.

Source: Center for Strategic International Studies

"The Russian army will be confronted with a new range of difficult challenges," sums up the military expert.

Ukraine War: Heavy casualties for Russia - New data released

First report from Monday, May 23, 1 p.m.:

The Ukrainian general staff has published new data on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war.

According to this, 29,200 Russian soldiers have fallen so far.

The military also lost 1,293 tanks, 204 planes and 170 helicopters.

The Kyiv Independent news portal refers to this information.

However, the information cannot be independently verified.

Recently, the Ukrainian army also announced that there were high casualties in the war.

(nak/tu/vbu/lz/ska with dpa/AFP/epd)

Source: merkur

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