Losses for Russia: Ukraine speaks of more than 38,000 Russian soldiers killed

2022-07-23T10:24:28.965Z

Ukraine war: According to insiders, Russia's losses are higher than expected Created: 07/23/2022, 12:10 p.m 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 Ministry of Defense specifies the current data: the news ticker. Russia continues to attack Ukraine. Kyiv f

Ukraine war: According to insiders, Russia's losses are higher than expected

Created: 07/23/2022, 12:10 p.m

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 Ministry of Defense specifies the current data: 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.

Update from Saturday, July 23, 2022, 11:35 a.m .:

In the morning report to the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, the Russian military is said to have briefed his head of state on current casualty figures in the Ukraine war.

This emerges from a post on the Telegram channel “General SVR”, which is said to be operated by a Kremlin insider.

It speaks of 43,018 "irretrievable losses" since the beginning of the war.

According to information in the Telegram message, this included only official military personnel.

Killed members of private security or military companies (PMCs) are not counted.

If these are really the official casualty figures on the Russian side, they even exceed the current estimate of the Ukrainian military, which currently expects over 39,200 Russian dead.

Since the start of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, official information about allegedly small Russian losses has seldom leaked out from the Kremlin.

Losses for Russia: Ukraine has stopped several advances.

(Archive image) © Evgeniy Maloletka/DPA

Losses in the Ukraine war: Five soldiers die in an attack on a nuclear power plant

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Since March, the troops from Russia have occupied the Enerhodar nuclear power plant.

The Ukraine recently attacked the power plant with so-called “kamikaze drones”, as the

dpa

reports.

"Kamikaze drones were used to attack a tent city and enemy equipment," the military intelligence service of Ukraine said.

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The attack reportedly destroyed both anti-aircraft defenses and a Grad (hail) multiple rocket launcher.

According to Ukrainian sources, three Russians were killed and twelve others injured in the attack.

The Russian occupation administration of the Zaporizhia region said that eleven power plant employees were injured in the attack - four of them seriously.

Heavy casualties: video shows destruction of Russian artillery division

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Ukrainian troops report the destruction of a Russian artillery division.

A video posted on Twitter shows an airstrike that destroyed eight Russian Msta-B howitzers, vehicles, ammunition and fortifications at an unspecified location in Ukraine, according to the military.

This is reported, among other things, by the news portal

Kyiv Independent

However, the information cannot be independently verified.

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As the news portal

Kyiv Independent

reports, the Ukrainian military has destroyed five Russian fortresses and two ammunition depots in southern Ukraine.

Accordingly, the Ukrainian task force "South" reported that on July 21 it killed 35 Russian soldiers and destroyed a howitzer, two UAVs and 11 armored and military vehicles.

The information provided by the task force cannot be independently verified.

Ukraine War News: Heavy Losses for Russia – Troops Use Imprecise Missiles

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The British Ministry of Defense reports in a situation report that Russia is using its air defense for ground attacks because it no longer has the appropriate missiles.

Accordingly, anti-aircraft systems would have small warheads that can pose a significant threat to troops in open terrain and light buildings, but are unlikely to penetrate fortified structures.

The lack of precision of the rockets is thus becoming a danger for the civilian population in Ukraine.

This cannot be verified independently.

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Serhiy Hajdaj, the governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, reported massive attacks by the Russian armed forces on Telegram.

"The Russians are throwing all their reserves into battle," Hajdaj explained.

Over the past day, "almost every village and town that the enemy can currently reach with their weapons" has been shelled.

His statements cannot be independently verified.

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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, 39,000 soldiers have already fallen.

This value is well above the estimate of the CIA.

The statistics at a glance:

Russia can probably no longer push through its ambitions in Ukraine

Update from Friday, July 22, 6:45 a.m .:

According to the Canadian armed forces, Russia probably no longer has the military capabilities to assert its ambitions in Ukraine.

In a series of tweets on July 21, the Canadian Armed Forces cited significant losses in personnel and equipment as reasons for Russia's dwindling military capabilities.

This is reported by the news portal

Kyiv Independent.

Heavy losses: Russia has used up more than half of its missiles

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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.

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.

“And the Ukrainians suffered too - 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 Nowa 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.

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-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 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 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.

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.

According to Al-Jazeera

, the Himar missile systems from the USA are said to have caused many losses on the side of Russia

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.