Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys several ammunition dumps
Created: 08/05/2022, 12:03 p.m
By: Nail Akkoyun
Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense publishes statistics from August 5: the situation in the news ticker.
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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.
Kyiv/Moscow - According to a Facebook report by an operational Ukrainian military command, Ukrainian forces have destroyed three Russian army ammunition depots: one each in Kherson, Prydniprovske and Tokarivka in southern Ukraine.
However, this information could not be verified independently.
A Russian soldier in an army camp.
(Archive photo) © Ilya Pitalev/Imago
In addition, 41,650 Russian soldiers are said to have fallen in the Ukraine war.
This emerges from the daily updated statistics published by the
Ukrainska Pravda
news portal, among others .
Soldiers:
41,650
Aircraft:
223
Helicopters:
192
Tanks:
1792
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4032
Artillery systems:
950
Air defense systems:
123
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
260
Cars and other vehicles:
2964
Ships:
15
Unmanned combat drones:
742
As of Thursday 5 August 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.