Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys ammunition depots - attacks repelled
Created: 06/08/2022 04:45
By: Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier
Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense publishes statistics from August 5: the situation in the news ticker.
Five months after invading Ukraine, Russian forces are fighting with heavy casualties.
Russia draws up plans to compensate for losses in the Ukraine war.
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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According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces drove the Russian occupiers to flee in an attack in the direction of Maryinka.
In the city, about 30 kilometers from Donetsk, Russia tried to advance and was put to flight, the reports
General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukraine has also successfully repelled three other attacks, the report said.
These were in the direction of the villages of Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka and Pisky.
It is not yet clear what losses Russia or Ukraine suffered as a result.
The information could not be independently verified.
Ukraine-News: He is said to have provided information to Russia - spy arrested
Update from Friday, August 5, 5:50 p.m .:
The Ukraine war continues to rage unabated.
Ukraine's secret service announces another loss for Russia.
According to the report, a suspected spy was caught and arrested.
The detainee is said to be none other than the "former deputy head of the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine".
He is suspected of having passed secret information to Russia.
During the search of his current workplace in the "State Space Agency of Ukraine" he is said to have tried to open fire on the officers.
The major general who is in custody now also has to answer on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons and attempted murder.
According to the SBU secret service, the investigation is ongoing.
The information has not yet been independently verified.
Ukraine-News: Russia may have lost a key spy behind Ukraine's lines.
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Losses to Russia: Ukraine destroyed Russian ammunition depots
KIEV
/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.
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.
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 .