War victims: Ukraine and Russia give new figures

Created: 06/11/2022Updated: 06/11/2022 08:52

By: Julius Fastnacht, Tobias Utz, Isabel Wetzel, Lucas Maier

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 Saturday, June 11, 8:44 a.m .:

The Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Oleksiy Arestovych has commented on the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed for the first time in months.

According to this, 10,000 soldiers have died on the Ukrainian side since the beginning of the war.

As the dpa reports, Arestovych had already announced at the beginning of the week that around 100 soldiers would die a day, as at the beginning of the war.

In a YouTube video interview with the Russian opposition leader Mark Feygin, he then confirmed the figure of around 10,000 soldiers killed.

"Yes, something like that," he replied when asked.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy urged Western countries to speed up delivery of new weapons.

“Russia wants to destroy every city in Donbass, 'every' is no exaggeration.

Like Volnovakha, like Mariupol,” Zelenskyy said in his video message on Friday (June 10).

As the President explained, own artillery successes are due to Western ammunition.

Both sides have suffered heavy losses in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine has commented on the losses for the first time in months.

(Archive image) © Bernat Armangue/dpa

War in Ukraine: Ukrainian side reports heavy Russian losses

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Serhiy Hajdaj, governor of the Luhansk region, reported on Friday (June 10) that the Russian military was suffering heavy losses every day.

"The Russians have significantly more casualties than the Ukrainians," said Hajdaj. "They are dying like flies." However, he said he could not provide any information on Ukrainian losses.

He was addressing the very sparse data on Ukrainian losses.

However, Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov recently gave an insight: "Every day up to 100 of our soldiers are killed and up to 500 wounded." This was also confirmed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: "Every day we lose 60 to 100 fallen soldiers and about 500 Wounded."

+++ 1 p.m.:

According to their own statements, Russian troops attacked an airport and a tank factory in Donbass on Friday night.

"At Dnipro Airport, high-precision surface-to-air missiles were used to destroy the Ukrainian armed forces' aircraft technology, and in the Kharkov area production capacities for the repair of weapons technology," said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov on Friday morning.

In addition, more than 500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed at the front by Russian air, rocket and artillery strikes.

In addition, 13 armored cars, nine artillery pieces, six rocket launchers and 16 military vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian army were disabled.

According to Konashenkov, 16 ammunition depots were also destroyed.

The information cannot be verified independently.

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A Russian unit apparently refused to fight.

This is reported by the Ukrainian General Staff.

Accordingly, the association is a motorized infantry unit of the 1st Army Corps.

The unit had previously suffered heavy casualties in the Kharkiv region, sources said.

The information cannot be independently verified.

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+++ 8:00 a.m .:

Seven attacks by Russian forces were apparently repelled by Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Thursday (June 9).

This is announced by the Ukrainian General Staff, as reported by the news portal Kyiv Independent.

Among other things, ten tanks, four armored vehicles, a military camp and five drones of the Russian army were destroyed.

The attacks also caused damage to the infrastructure: Since more than 20 settlements were shelled, numerous houses and farms were destroyed.

A train station was also hit.

According to the General Staff, two people died.

So far, there has been no statement from the Russian side.

The information cannot be independently verified.

Update from Friday, June 10, 6:30 a.m.:

According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops are suffering significant losses in the battle for Sievjerodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

"The Russians have significantly more casualties than the Ukrainians," Luhansk Governor Serhiy Hajday said on Facebook.

The ratio is "one to ten".

He gave no information on Ukrainian losses.

The Russian army has withdrawn the remains of units from the republic of Buryatia in Russia's Far East.

"They die like flies," said Hajdaj.

According to President Zelenskyy, the heavy fighting for the city could point the way for further development in the Donbass.

The information is not independently verifiable.

Ukraine: Heavy rocket fire in city of Stakhanov - at least 13 dead

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Several people were killed in eastern Ukraine in the pro-Russian Luhansk region.

At least 13 people are said to have died in the city of Stakhanov as a result of rocket launcher fire, the dpa reports.

"About 20 Uragan missiles hit the country," head of the republic Leonid Pasechnik told Russian media on Thursday (June 9).

In addition to the dead, six were also injured, it is said.

The pro-Russian separatists accuse Ukraine of firing directly at a residential area.

So far, the information could not be independently verified.

+++ 1:00 p.m .:

Ukraine records “up to a hundred soldiers killed and up to 500 wounded” soldiers in the fighting with the Russian army every day.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Thursday that the situation on the front lines in the eastern Donbass region was difficult.

"The Kremlin continues to press with sheer masses, stumbles, meets strong resistance and suffers heavy casualties," Reznikov said in a statement published online.

+++ 10.30 a.m .:

Surprisingly, the Ukrainian General Staff data on Russia’s losses were corrected.

Most recently, it was said that more than 31,800 soldiers had already fallen on the Russian side.

The latest statistics, published by the news portal Kyiv Independent on Thursday morning, speak of 31,700 dead armed forces.

However, this is a rounding.

In addition to personnel losses, the Russian army lost almost 1,400 tanks and more than 200 military aircraft.

So far, there has been no statement from the Kremlin.

Ukraine War: Ukraine suffers heavy losses in battle for Sviatohirsk

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Russia reported heavy losses in the Ukrainian army on Wednesday (June 8).

Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukraine lost more than 300 fighters within three days in fighting around the city of Sviatohirsk alone.

In addition, 15 combat vehicles and 36 weapon systems were destroyed.

The information cannot be independently verified

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.

Ukraine-News: Heavy losses for Russia - "Numbers of deaths are depressing"

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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.

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, however, 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 is 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.

(tu/juf/lm/iwe with dpa/AFP)