Heavy losses in the Ukraine war: Ukraine and Russia exchange bodies
Created: 06/09/2022, 08:04
By: Julius Fastnacht, Tobias Utz
In the Ukraine war, soldiers die every day, on both sides.
The losses are piling up – an overview.
The heavy losses in the Ukraine war are piling up on both sides, both Russia and Ukraine.
Reports about the poor morale of the Russian armed forces keep circulating.
There should also be acts of sabotage.
Our editorial team depicts the situation surrounding losses in the Ukraine war in this news ticker on the Ukraine conflict.
The parties to the conflict are partly the source of the information.
Information on the number of victims or the course of the war cannot be directly verified independently.
Update from Thursday, June 9, 7:45 a.m .:
According to authorities in Kiev, Ukraine and Russia handed over the bodies of 50 soldiers to the other side.
Among the Ukrainians killed were 37 "heroes" who took part in defending the Azovstal plant, the Ukrainian Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories said in Kyiv.
The exchange is said to have taken place along the front line in the Zaporizhia region in the south of the country.
The information cannot be independently verified.
In addition, according to the authorities, several civilians were killed or wounded in attacks on Ukrainian locations.
Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko blamed Russia for four dead and five injured in the government-held part of the region in the east of the country.
The Ukrainian army spoke of seven repelled Russian attacks in the Donbass.
31 fighters were killed and several armored vehicles were destroyed.
The Russian military destroyed about 20 houses as well as two schools and a train station when shelling Ukrainian locations.
The information is not independently verifiable.
A Ukrainian soldier smokes a cigarette on an infantry fighting vehicle during a pause near the front line in the Donetsk region.
(Archive photo) © Bernat Armangue / AP / dpa
Ukraine-News: Heavy casualties for Russia - "Numbers of deaths are depressing"
+++ 1:00 p.m .:
NATO is currently observing a rapidly growing number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
"The death toll we've been dealing with lately is really depressing," a senior NATO official, who wished to remain anonymous, told the editorial network Germany.
However, this does not apply to Russian armed forces, but also to the civilian population, according to the official.
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But the losses on the part of the Ukrainian army are also enormous: President Selenskyj recently said that around 100 soldiers are killed every day.
Drone footage from combat zones shows ever-expanding, improvised cemeteries.
"This battlefield is far more deadly than anything we've seen in decades," Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of US forces in Europe, told the AP news agency.
Ukraine-News: Heavy losses for Russia - soldiers complain about heat, equipment and morale
First report from Wednesday, June 8, 9 a.m.:
Kiev – There has been a war in Ukraine for more than 100 days.
It is believed that there will be heavy losses on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.
While data on Russia's army is regularly released, data on Ukraine's military is very poor.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, more than 31,800 soldiers have fallen on the Russian side.
NATO and the British secret service, on the other hand, speak of around 20,000 dead armed forces.
Military casualties appear to be mounting, particularly as a result of the slowed-down offensive in the Donbass.
Recently, a military insider lamented the "miserable" conditions in the army.
This has now been confirmed by several videos of soldiers speaking of poor conditions in the Ukraine war.
"Our people have endured hunger and cold," the Guardian quoted a soldier from the 113th regiment stationed around Donetsk as saying from one of the videos.
"For a long period of time we were without any material, medical or catering support."
Ukraine-News: Heavy losses for Russia - "It's exhausting"
"Given our constant presence and the fact that our staff includes people with chronic medical conditions and mental health problems, many questions arise that are ignored by higher positions at headquarters." Another soldier laments the staffing of the headquarters, according to the report Troops: "It's exhausting, my whole unit wants a break, but our leadership has said they can't replace us at the moment."
This is confirmed by an analysis on the platform "War on the Rocks".
"The Russian military is well suited to short, high-intensity campaigns characterized by heavy use of artillery," analyze Michael Kofman and Rob Lee in the latest report.
“By contrast, it is ill-equipped for a permanent occupation or a grueling war of attrition that would require a large proportion of Russia's ground forces - and that is precisely the conflict it finds itself in.
The Russian military is not in a position to easily adjust or rotate its armed forces when a significant part of its combat capability is tied up in a war.” President Vladimir Putin recently proclaimed the aforementioned “war of attrition” as a goal.
Ukraine-News: Heavy casualties in the war - heat becomes a problem
Aside from poor equipment and heavy losses in the Ukraine conflict, the expected heat in the summer months could become a problem for the Ukrainian and Russian armies.
"We're sitting here without water.
It's been very hot lately.
Now the heat is added and the boys are still in shock.
Morally depressed,” the US news portal Daily Beast quoted a Russian soldier as saying.
In addition, there is the equipment that was designed for the winter months.
This is unsuitable for rising temperatures, according to the soldier.
According to the report, it was not possible to finally clarify where exactly the Russian soldier was stationed.
However, among other things, he mentioned the low morale among the Russian armed forces.
Time and again it becomes public that soldiers refuse to continue fighting in the Ukraine war.
(do/juf with dpa)
