Heavy losses: Russia has used up more than half of its missiles
Created: 07/22/2022, 04:48 am
By: Helena Gries, Sandra Kathe, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel, Vincent Büssow, Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier
Russia apparently recorded high losses in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian general staff publishes the latest figures: 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 is said to have used up 60 percent of its missile inventory since the start of the Ukraine war.
This was announced by a spokesman for the Ukrainian military intelligence service on Thursday (July 21).
These are high-precision weapons that are difficult to produce due to sanctions.
However, Russia still has a large inventory of old missiles from the Soviet era.
Russia uses high-precision missiles such as the 9K720 Iskander in the Ukraine war.
However, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, the stock is 60 percent depleted.
(Archive image) © Ministry of Defense Russia/dpa
Heavy Losses: Confusion about death statistics of Russian soldiers
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The Ukrainian general staff has published the latest figures on Russian losses in the Ukraine war.
This is reported by the news
portals Nexta
and
Kyiv Independent
.
Accordingly, 38,850 soldiers have already fallen.
This value is well above the estimate of the CIA (see update from 6:45 a.m.).
The statistics at a glance:
Soldiers:
38,850
Aircraft:
221
Helicopters:
188
Tanks:
1704
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
3912
Artillery systems:
859
Air defense systems:
113
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
251
Cars and other vehicles:
2775
Ships:
15
Unmanned combat drones:
710
As of Thursday 21 July 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.
Update from Thursday, July 21, 6:45 a.m .:
The Russian attack on Ukraine has been raging for almost five months.
The US foreign intelligence service assumes that around 15,000 people have died on the side of ruler Vladimir Putin.
The number of wounded Russian soldiers is about three times as high, said CIA director William Burns on Wednesday (July 20) at a panel discussion in the US state of Colorado.
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“And the Ukrainians also suffered - probably a little less.
But, you know, significant losses,” the representative of the foreign intelligence service was quoted as saying by the
dpa
.
There is no official information from the Russian side.
The Ukrainian side's estimates are currently lower than those of the US.
The last estimate here was around 38,750 disabled soldiers on the side of Russia.
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The Ukrainian armed forces have apparently also destroyed a modern Russian radar station in the Kherson Oblast.
This was reported by the ground forces on Facebook.
Accordingly, the station was attacked and destroyed from a distance of more than 100 kilometers.
The radar station was developed by the largest Russian armaments company Almas-Antei for the Russian armed forces.
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According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces shot down a Russian fighter jet near the city of Nova Kakhovka in the southern region of Cherson.
It is said to be a Sukhoi Su-35 worth $85 million.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force Command, the Su-35 tried to attack a Ukrainian Air Force aircraft.
A video on Twitter appears to show the moment the plane was hit in mid-air and burst into flames.
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The Ukrainian army regularly announces numbers of Russian losses.
According to this, almost 39,000 Russian soldiers have lost their lives in the Ukraine war so far.
1,700 tanks and 221 aircraft were also destroyed.
Russia itself last reported losses in its own ranks in March.
The losses at a glance:
Update from Wednesday, July 20, 06:19:
Ukrainian soldiers have caused significant casualties on the Russian side, the
Kyiv Independent
reports .
The Donetsk region is affected.
However, official figures from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense are not yet available.
EU sanctions hit Russia's state railways (RZD)
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Ukraine-News: Ukrainian airstrikes in the south of the country
Update from Monday, July 18, 6:19 a.m .:
The air strikes 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 soldiers near Blahodatne, Davydiv Brid in the Kherson region on Sunday (July 17).
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.
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.
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)