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Heavy casualties for Russia: "Armed forces increasingly emaciated"

2022-06-28T11:02:37.332Z


Heavy casualties for Russia: "Armed forces increasingly emaciated" Created: 06/28/2022, 12:55 p.m By: Daniel Dillmann, Nail Akkoyun, Vincent Büssow, Christian Stör Russia continues to struggle in the Ukraine war. The losses are unexpectedly high. The fighting power seems to be suffering – an overview in the news ticker. Heavy losses for Russia : number of soldiers killed in Ukraine war unexpec


Heavy casualties for Russia: "Armed forces increasingly emaciated"

Created: 06/28/2022, 12:55 p.m

By: Daniel Dillmann, Nail Akkoyun, Vincent Büssow, Christian Stör

Russia continues to struggle in the Ukraine war.

The losses are unexpectedly high.

The fighting power seems to be suffering – an overview in the news ticker.

  • Heavy losses for Russia

    :

    number of soldiers killed in Ukraine war unexpectedly high.

  • Reserve forces needed

    :

    Russia may soon be forced to start mobilizing reserve forces.

  • Russia's losses:

    News and an overview of Russian losses in the Ukraine conflict in our news ticker.

+++ 12.50 p.m .:

According to British intelligence experts, Russia’s invasion troops in Ukraine are clearly marked by their heavy losses.

"The Russian armed forces are increasingly exhausted," said the daily situation report of the British Ministry of Defense on the Ukraine war on Tuesday.

The main components of six different armies were used in the battle for Sieverodonetsk.

Nevertheless, only a short-term goal was achieved with the capture of the city.

The Russian military leadership is currently accepting "a level of reduced combat effectiveness that will probably prove unsustainable," the experts summed up.

Russia has suffered heavy losses in the war against Ukraine.

(Archive image) © dpa

Ukraine News: Heavy casualties for Russia

+++ 10.35 a.m .:

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, more than 35,000 Russian soldiers have fallen since the beginning of the war.

Russia is said to have suffered the greatest losses in the fighting in the area around the city of Bakhmut last day.

However, Ukraine did not provide precise data on this.

The numbers cannot be checked.

However, it is largely certain that Russian losses will be much higher than expected.

For comparison: According to official Soviet information, around 13,000 soldiers died during the Afghan war before the withdrawal from Afghanistan in February 1989.

According to information from the British Ministry of Defence, Russia had already reached this number in May during the Ukraine war. 

Ukraine-News: Russia's losses at a glance

  • Soldiers: 35,250

  • Aircraft: 217

  • Helicopters: 185

  • Tanks: 1567

  • Panzerkampfwagen: 3704

  • Artillery systems: 778

  • Air defense systems: 102

  • Multiple rocket launcher systems: 243

  • Cars and other vehicles: 2589

  • Ships: 14

  • Unmanned combat drones: 636

  • As of Tuesday, June 28, 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.

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Ukraine-News: Russia relies on reserve forces due to heavy losses

Update from Tuesday, June 28, 7:45 a.m .:

Due to heavy losses in the Ukraine war, Russia is apparently increasingly relying on retired officers and reserve forces.

At least, according to the US Institute for the Study of War, the Russian military authorities continue to look for ways to replenish their increasingly depleted military capacity without announcing a general mobilization.

With losses increasing, Russia must soon begin mobilizing reservists in order to be able to maintain its eastern offensive.

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+++ 6.44 p.m .:

As reported by Natalia Humeniuk, head of the coordination center of the defense forces of southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian armed forces are pushing back the Russian troops further south.

However, the success also brings difficulties for Ukraine: "Since they are unable to advance on the ground, they are trying to advance from the air, where we are more vulnerable," Humeniuk said, according to the online newspaper

Ukrainska Pravda

.

Ukraine-News: Ukrainian armed forces report success at Bakhmut

+++ 12.15 p.m .:

The Ukrainian general staff says that in the Bakhmut area, attacks by Russian units on a suburb were repulsed: “Ukrainian soldiers inflicted significant losses on the enemy near the village of Pavliwka.

The occupiers withdrew after an unsuccessful attempt to attack,” it said on Facebook.

+++ 10.15 a.m .:

The Ukrainian general staff published new data on Russian losses in the morning.

Accordingly, since the invasion began on February 24, Russia has suffered almost 35,000 dead soldiers.

"Total enemy combat casualties from February 24 to June 27 is about 35,000 men," the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook.

The information cannot be verified.

The Kremlin only published figures on Russian losses once in March.

Update from Monday, June 27, 8:50 a.m.:

The Ukrainian Operations Command "South" reported new Russian losses on June 26.

Accordingly, 39 Russian soldiers were killed in southern Ukraine, a Russian T-72 tank and four armored vehicles and three military vehicles were destroyed.

Two Russian ammunition depots in Mykolaiv Oblast and one in Kherson Oblast were also said to have been destroyed.

+++ 10:02 p.m .:

Russia reports that Ukraine has confiscated drilling rigs.

However, the information should still be treated with caution.

+++ 16:06

: Ukrainian troops have destroyed Russian command posts with US rocket launchers.

This is reported by the Kyiv Independent on Twitter.

A video of the destroyed post is circulating on social media.

+++ 10:00 a.m .:

The Ukrainian general staff has published the latest figures on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war:

Update from Sunday, June 26, 7:30 a.m.:

The Ukrainian army has apparently once again succeeded in inflicting heavy losses on the Russian military.

The General Staff reports, according to the

Kyiv Independent

, that a column of Russian "MLRS" - military vehicles with multiple rocket launchers - is being destroyed.

Other equipment was also destroyed.

The information cannot be independently verified.

+++ 1.30 p.m .:

The Ukrainian General Staff has published its daily update of figures.

The statistics list, among other things, the losses of Russia.

Accordingly, 34,700 armed forces have already fallen.

However, there are losses on the Russian side, not only in terms of personnel, but also materially.

According to statistics, more than 1500 tanks, over 200 and more than 180 helicopters were destroyed.

On the one hand, the information cannot be verified and, on the other hand, it comes from a war party.

NATO's figures are significantly lower.

There is no statement from the Russian side.

The Kremlin has not commented on the number of losses for weeks.

Update from Saturday, June 25, 6:30 a.m .:

The Ukrainian army has apparently managed to inflict further losses on the Russian military in the south of the country.

The news portal

Kyiv Independent

reports with reference to the Ukrainian task force "South" that 46 Russian soldiers were killed.

In addition, two tanks, several armored military vehicles and howitzers were destroyed.

The information cannot be independently verified.

+++ 6.45 p.m .:

According to

CNN

, Ukrainian forces withdrawing from Sievjerodonetsk are trying to reorient themselves.

"The Ukrainian armed forces are conducting a professional, tactical retreat to secure their positions where they can better defend themselves," a senior US official said in a background briefing with the US broadcaster.



Accordingly, the Russian army in the Donbass is still gaining "inch by inch in territory".

At the same time, he described the Russian advance on Sieverodonetsk as a "very small, very gradual gain".

However, he did not want to downplay the "significant" percentage of territory that Russia controls in Ukraine, nor the loss of Ukrainian lives.

Losses in the “War of Attrition”: dead and injured after air raid in Donetsk

+++ 5:20 p.m .:

On the night of June 24, the Russian military attacked the city of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, according to Ukrainian information.

A fire station was hit in the rocket attack.

Four rescue workers were injured and one person died.

This was confirmed by the local police, among others.

As a result of the bombardment, 22 residential buildings and 14 social facilities were also destroyed.

News on the Ukraine war: Heavy casualties – numerous people injured in Russian attack

+++ 3.50 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, 17 people were injured in Russian attacks on the Mykolaiv region within the past 24 hours.

Several settlements were shelled at the same time, reported the head of the regional council, Hanna Zamazieeva.

The attack mainly damaged residential buildings and other infrastructure.

Currently, 266 injured civilians are being treated in hospitals in the region, Zamazieeva continued.

+++ 1:52 p.m .:

Russia suffers further losses in the Ukraine war.

According to a report by the Kiyv Independent news portal, the Ukrainian military has killed 44 Russian soldiers in southern Ukraine.

In addition, the task force "South" is said to have carried out five attacks on Russian positions in the past 24 hours, destroying military equipment such as howitzers and armored vehicles.

The information cannot be independently verified.

Russia's losses in Ukraine: Eleven armored vehicles destroyed

+++ 9.40 a.m .:

Russia is apparently suffering further losses in the Ukraine war.

According to information from the news portal Newsweek, a Ukrainian mechanized brigade destroyed several Russian military vehicles in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

Footage from Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade appears to show several vehicles being hit by Ukrainian guns in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine.

A brief statement from the unit said: "The 93rd Cold Yar Brigade destroyed 11 units of enemy equipment, including tanks, armored personnel carriers and Lynx fighting vehicles."

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that between February 24 and June 23 Russia had about 34,430 soldiers, 1,504 tanks, 3,632 armored fighting vehicles, 756 artillery units, 240 multiple missiles, 99 air defense systems, 216 combat aircraft, 183 helicopters, 620 drones, 137 cruise missiles , lost 14 warships, 2,548 motor vehicles and tank trucks.

Russia's losses in the "bloody war of attrition": Pro-Russian troops lose half of the armed forces

Update from 06/24/2022, 7.30 a.m .:

Russia's efforts to capture Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk - the two cities in Luhansk remaining under Ukrainian control - have turned into a bloody war of attrition, in which both sides have suffered heavy losses.

Moscow has managed to post steady gains over the past two weeks.

"The fighting is approaching some kind of frightening climax," a Russian military official said

Russian forces try to encircle Ukrainian troops defending Lysychansk.

This is what Ukraine's senior defense minister, Oleksiy Gromov, said at a briefing on Thursday.

Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk region, one of the two regions in eastern Donbass, added that Russian forces had been successful in their advance.

(dil/nak)

Source: merkur

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