Heavy casualties: Separatists reportedly kill 50 Ukrainian soldiers
Created: 2022-08-02 04:54
By: Moritz Serif, Tim Vincent Dicke, Jan-Frederik Wendt, Christian Stör
Russia records heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
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Less than five months after the invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces are fighting with heavy casualties.
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Editor
's note: Some of the information on the Ukraine conflict comes from warring factions and cannot be directly checked independently.
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Separatist groups fighting for Russia have reported that they have killed a total of 50 Ukrainian soldiers in the past 24 hours.
The group consists primarily of fighters from the self-proclaimed "Luhansk People's Republic".
The Russian state news
agency TASS
reports that numerous armored troop carriers were also destroyed.
The information is not independently verifiable.
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The Ukrainian general staff reports that 41,030 soldiers of the Russian army are said to have fallen.
This emerges from the daily updated statistics published by the news
portals Nexta
and
Kyiv Independent
, among others.
So far, there has been no statement from Russia.
The armed forces in Kiev have also given
further figures on Russia's losses:
Soldiers:
41,030
Aircraft:
223
Helicopters:
190
Tanks:
1768
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4011
Artillery systems:
932
Air defense systems:
117
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
259
Cars and other vehicles:
2912
Ships:
15
Unmanned combat drones:
736
As of Monday, August 1, 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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According to an assessment by the British Ministry of Defense, Russia has moved more troops from the regions in eastern Ukraine to the Zaporizhia region.
According to the ministry report, President Vladimir Putin is said to have identified the oblast as a weak point for the Ukrainian military.
At the same time, attacks continue in the region around the town of Bakhmut, which, however, bring little progress.
The information from London, which is based on intelligence information, cannot be independently verified.
Ukrainian soldiers fire a howitzer in the Donetsk region.
(Archive photo) © dpa
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Almost 200 members of the Russian Navy have refused to move to southern Ukraine, says Ukrainian intelligence spokesman Wadym Skibitskyj.
The unit is operational but weakened.
It is the 810th Brigade.
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Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys ammunition dumps and kills soldiers
Update from Monday, August 01, 2022, 06:30:
Ukrainian troops have destroyed four Russian ammunition depots.
In addition, the military killed 52 Russian soldiers, destroyed four tanks and other military vehicles.
According to the Kyiv Independent
, Ukraine has destroyed 15 ammunition depots
in the past few weeks alone .
Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys vehicles with HIMARS
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According to a report by the Kyiv Independent, the Ukrainian army can claim a successful strike against the Russian military.
Citing the Odessa administration, the medium wrote that Ukraine, using the dreaded HIMARS system, hit a Russian motorcade of around 40 vehicles near Kherson.
Around 80 Russian soldiers were killed and 200 others injured in the action.
The column came from the Crimean peninsula to transport troops, ammunition and equipment, it said.
Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys ammunition depots
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According to their own statements, the Ukrainian military has destroyed two ammunition depots belonging to the Russian conflict party.
Two howitzers, a multiple rocket launcher, three armored fighting vehicles and a device for launching anti-tank guided missiles were destroyed, reports the national news agency Ukrinform, citing official military information.
Ukraine war: Russia reports drone attack
+++ 3.15 p.m .:
Russia reported a drone attack by the Ukrainian army on the Russian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol.
The Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mykhailo Razvozhaev, said a Ukrainian drone had attacked the local headquarters of the Russian fleet, injuring five people.
Heavy losses for Russia: Ukrainian military announces new numbers
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According to the latest statistics from the Ukrainian army on Russia’s losses, 40,830 soldiers have already fallen.
In addition, 223 military aircraft and 1763 tanks were destroyed.
Ukraine War News: Heavy Losses for Russia
Update from Sunday, July 31, 6 a.m.:
The Ukrainian military says it has killed dozens of Russian soldiers in fighting in the south, including in the Kherson region, which is the focus of the Kiev counter-offensive in this part of the country and is an important connection to Moscow's supply lines.
The train service to Cherson via the Dnieper was interrupted, the military command south announced on Saturday.
This could further isolate Russian forces west of the river from supplies to occupied Crimea and the East.
This information cannot be independently verified.
First report from Saturday, July 30, 4:30 p.m.:
According to the Ukrainian military, Ukrainian paratroopers crashed a Russian nuclear-capable Su-25 fighter plane over the Donetsk region on Friday (July 29).
This is reported by the Ukrainian news portal
Kyiv Independent
.
The information cannot be independently verified.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, at least 222 Russian military aircraft have been shot down since the start of the war.
Russia has not given any information about casualties in the war.
(cs/jfw/mse/tvd with dpa/AFP)
