Heavy losses: Russia's state railway asks for EU sanctions to be lifted
Created: 2022-07-20 04:55
By: Helena Gries, Sandra Kathe, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel, Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier
Russia records heavy losses.
The Russian state railway is contacting the EU.
The current data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in the news ticker.
Russia continues to attack Ukraine.
Kyiv fights back in the Ukraine war.
Weapons deliveries from the NATO area, the EU and the USA are severely affecting Russia in the Ukraine conflict.
Editor's note:
Some of the information comes from warring factions and cannot be directly verified independently.
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Russia’s state railway (RZD) is apparently severely affected by the EU sanctions and is now asking for the punitive measures to be lifted.
They are socially unfair, according to the state-owned company on the Telegram news channel.
"EU sanctions are aimed at limiting RZD's ability to carry out its humanitarian missions and are discriminatory towards the people of Russia."
RZD was one of the first companies to end up on the sanctions list, since both Russian troops and their military technology were mostly transported to their deployment site by rail.
But it is also an environmentally friendly means of transport - especially for the socially disadvantaged population in Russia.
Pensioners, the disabled and large families are affected.
Against this background, "RZD calls on the EU Council of Ministers to lift the sanctions against them." While the Russian leadership is mostly concerned with portraying the Western sanctions as largely insignificant, RZD's request is a frank admission that the punitive measures Show effects.
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Russia needs new troops - exchange of dead soldiers with Ukraine
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Ukraine and Russia have again exchanged several dozen bodies of killed soldiers in the ongoing war.
"Ukraine has brought back 45 of its defenders," said the ministry responsible in Kyiv on Tuesday.
The exchange was carried out in accordance with the norms of the Geneva Convention.
No further details were given.
A member of the occupation administration of the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia confirmed to the Russian state news agency
Ria Novosti
that the exchange was based on the “45 for 45” formula.
The Russian state railway RZD is suffering from the EU sanctions and is asking for help.
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Russia is said to have difficulties maintaining an effective offensive combat power.
The problem is becoming more and more acute.
According to the British Defense Intelligence service, the Russian advance in the Donbass is likely to be very slow due to the lack of soldiers.
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9:00 a.m.: Ukrainian forces are said to have inflicted losses on Russia near Sloviansk and Avdiivka.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Accordingly, the Ukrainian military forced the Russian armed forces to retreat.
The information cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine-News: Ukrainian military destroys Russian ammunition depots
Update from Tuesday, July 19, 6:45 a.m .:
As the news portal
Kyiv Independent
reports
,
the Ukrainian military has destroyed two Russian ammunition depots in southern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Operational Command "South" reported on July 18 that Ukrainian forces also killed 65 Russian soldiers and destroyed a mobile communications system and 11 armored and military vehicles.
The Ukrainian army regularly releases numbers of Russian casualties.
According to this, more than 38,000 Russian soldiers are said to have lost their lives in the Ukraine war.
Russia itself, on the other hand, only very rarely provides information about losses in its own ranks.
The losses at a glance:
Soldiers:
38,550
Aircraft:
220
Helicopters:
188
Tanks:
1691
Artillery systems:
852
Air defense systems:
116
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
248
Cars and other vehicles:
2760
Ships:
15
Unmanned combat drones:
692
As of Tuesday, July 19, 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.
Ukraine-News: Russian occupiers found in Kharkiv region
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Ukrainian forces tracked down a squad of the Russian Navy in the Kharkov region and captured one of the commanders.
According to a report by Pravda Ukrainska, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced this via Telegram.
The reconnaissance group carried out a special operation in the Kharkiv region.
A large part of the Russian occupiers were found.
According to the newspaper, 36 Russian soldiers were killed in the attack.
Others suffered injuries of varying degrees of severity.
The reconnaissance group finally forced the Russian units to retreat despite their numerical superiority.
The platoon commander of the enemy unit was wounded and taken prisoner.
He is now in one of the medical institutions of Ukraine.
The information on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war comes from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
They cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine War: Russia is said to have lost 50,000 soldiers
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The British Defense Chief of Staff Anthony Radakin assumes that Russia has now lost 50,000 soldiers in the Ukraine war – dead or wounded.
That's what Radakin told the
BBC
.
His statements cannot be independently verified.
The Ukrainian General Staff speaks of more than 38,000 dead soldiers of the Russian army.
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According to information from the British secret service, Russia’s Wagner group is lowering recruitment standards and suffering heavy losses as a result.
Accordingly, convicts and formerly blacklisted individuals would be hired by Wagner, potentially impacting its effectiveness.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian soldiers do not want to fight in Ukraine
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The news portal
Kyiv Independent
shares media report that Buryatia soldiers are being threatened for refusing to fight in Russia's war.
According to the Russian news agency
Mediazona
, seven soldiers from Russia's Republic of Buryatia were threatened by their commanders after refusing to be sent to Ukraine.
The information cannot be independently verified.
News about the Ukraine war: Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports new casualties of the Russian army
Ukraine-News: Ukrainian airstrikes in the south of the country
Update from Monday, July 18, 6:19 a.m .:
The airstrikes by the Ukrainian military in southern Ukraine were successful, as the Ukrainian news portal
Kyiv Independent
reports.
According to the Armed Forces' own statements, the Operational Command "South" killed 36 Russian troops on Sunday (July 17) near Blahodatne, Davydiv Brid in the Kherson region.
In addition, two Pantsir missile systems, three strategic communications systems, a radar station, two ammunition depots, and eleven armored and military vehicles were destroyed.
On the night of Monday, July 18, around ten explosions could also be heard in Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych reported to the Kyiv Independent.
News about the Ukraine war: The morale of Russian troops is said to suffer massively
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When trying to storm several towns around the cities of Siwersk and Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, the Russian military is said to have suffered significant losses according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the report in the Ukrainian news portal Kyiv Independent, the attackers were forced to retreat by the resistance of the Ukrainians.
The general staff also increasingly reported at the weekend that the Russian armed forces were in a “very bad moral and psychological state”, which was also due to the loss of personnel as a result of the Ukrainian resistance.
Again and again, soldiers were "looking for a way to avoid participating in further combat operations".
These representations cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine war: Russia 'has lost 30 percent of its combat capability'
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In the Ukraine war, which has been going on for almost five months, Russia has already lost 30 percent of its combat capability on land, according to information from the British Ministry of Defence.
This was reported by the chief of the British Defense Staff, Sir Tony Radakin, on the BBC Morning Show on Sunday.
According to the Navy Admiral, around 50,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the war began at the end of February and have thus been rendered unable to fight.
This development gives the Ukrainian armed forces reason to hope that they can still win the war - despite the significant difference in size between the two countries.
Radakin also sees a realistic chance for Ukraine to make up for initial land losses: "Russia launched this invasion with the ambition to take over all of Ukraine, to conquer the Ukrainian cities in the first 30 days."
Ukraine War News: Russian Equipment Destroyed
Update from Sunday, July 17, 12 noon:
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia has lost around 38,300 military personnel, 1,684 tanks and a significant amount of other military equipment in the course of its large-scale military invasion of Ukraine as of today.
Compared to Saturday (July 16), 160 more Russian forces are said to have been killed.
In addition, seven tanks and five combat vehicles could be destroyed.
The information could not be independently verified.
News in the Ukraine war: armed forces succeed in destroying military bases and fighter jets
Update from Saturday, July 16, 7 a.m.:
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, "more than 30 Russian military bases" have been destroyed with rocket launchers in the past few weeks.
This emerges from a Telegram post.
More detailed information, such as the locations of the destroyed military bases, was not given.
As is so often the case, the information cannot be independently verified for the time being.
News about the war: Ukrainian army shoots down Russian fighter jets - "precisely hit"
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According to their own statements, fighters from the Ukrainian army shot down two Russian fighter planes in the Zaporizhia region.
“Recently, near settlements such as Orikhiv and Stepove, the enemy tried to attack the Ukrainian positions with two Su-25 aircraft.
But our fighters acted in advance and accurately hit enemy planes with man-portable anti-aircraft systems," the Ukrainian side said in a statement.
One plane was completely destroyed, the other was damaged.
War News: Ukraine demolishes Russia's HQ in Kherson
Update from Friday, July 15, 2:30 p.m .:
Another severe blow against the Russian occupiers in the Cherson region is reported by Ukraine.
A headquarters and barracks are said to have been destroyed in Nova Mayachka, according to adviser to the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Serhii Khlan.
The attack by Ukrainian forces is said to have taken place at 10 p.m. yesterday (July 14), Khlan reported via social media.
The number of victims on the Russian side is not yet known.
The information could not be independently verified.
First report from Friday, July 15:
Cherson - The Ukraine war rages on incessantly.
The armed forces of Ukraine repeatedly inflict heavy losses on the aggressors from Russia.
In southern Ukraine, Russia is said to have lost several ammunition depots to weapon systems from the West in recent days, according to the troops behind Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
Ukraine-News: Russia has to take heavy losses in the south
The report by the Operations Command "South" on Thursday (July 14) speaks of heavy losses for the troops from Russia, including six armored vehicles, a "Gvozdika" howitzer and a field ammunition depot.
The Himar missile systems from the USA are said to have caused many losses on the side of Russia, as
Al-Jazeera
writes.
The current attacks on depots behind enemy lines may indicate that the Russian occupiers are about to launch a counter-offensive in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
Ukraine War: Information from Russia is rare
It remains to be seen whether Russia's losses will continue to increase.
Ex-General Frederick Ben Hodges recently predicted defeat for Russia.
(lm/nak/tvd/ska/hg/na with dpa/AFP)