Heavy losses for Russia: Eight fighter jets destroyed or damaged - military "weakened"
Created: 2022-08-12Updated: 2022-08-12 11:51 am
By: Moritz Serif, Sarah Neumeyer
Russia records heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
Several fighter jets were destroyed in the explosions in Crimea: 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.
+++ 11.30 a.m .:
According to the British Ministry of Defence, the heavy explosions at a Russian military base in Crimea are affecting the operational capability of the Black Sea Fleet.
Citing intelligence information, the ministry said eight fighter jets were badly damaged or destroyed.
The assessment is explosive that the Russian army uses the base as a supply route for the troops in southern Ukraine.
However, the Luftwaffe is "considerably weakened" after the recent losses.
The causes of the explosions at the base are still unclear.
Ukraine has not yet made a clear statement on this.
A Ukrainian soldier examines a Russian tank on a road between Okhtyrka and Trostyanets in Ukraine.
(Archive photo) © Daniel Carde / dpa
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The Ukrainian military has updated the statistics on Russia’s losses.
According to this, 43,200 soldiers of the Russian army have now fallen.
An overview of the data published by the news
portals Nexta
and
Kyiv Independent
, among others :
Soldiers:
43,200
Aircraft:
233
Helicopters:
193
Tanks:
1849
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4108
Artillery systems:
975
Air defense systems:
136
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
261
Cars and other vehicles:
3021
Ships:
15
Unmanned Combat Drones:
778
As of Friday 12 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.
Update from Friday, August 12, 6 a.m.:
Ukraine attacked a Russian fortress and an ammunition dump.
As the news portal
Kyiv Independent
reports, 19 Russian soldiers were killed in the attacks and four military vehicles were destroyed.
Heavy losses for Russia: several fighter jets destroyed
Update from Thursday, August 11, 8:50 p.m .:
Several Russian fighter jets were apparently destroyed in explosions on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
This is shown by satellite images published by the US company Planet Labs.
The footage contradicts Moscow's account of the events, according to which a fire started as a result of exploding ammunition.
There were no Russian reports of destroyed military technology.
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Both the
New York Times
and the US Institute for War Studies (ISW) reported Thursday (August 11) that at least eight planes had been burned down.
The US television channel
CNN
gave the number of jets destroyed on the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 as at least seven.
Ten machines had previously been mentioned in Kyiv.
Der
Spiegel
reports nine destroyed fighter jets.
Accordingly, the Saki air force base will probably not be deployable in the short term, but the psychological consequences of the alleged Ukrainian attack are more serious.
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damaged Russian planes at Saki Air Force Base after an explosion.
© dpa
Although the leadership in Kyiv has not officially taken responsibility for the explosions, many observers are now assuming a targeted Ukrainian attack due to the number and force of the explosions.
According to ISW military experts, the Russian leadership does not want to admit a Ukrainian attack for image reasons.
Because then Moscow would have to admit that its air defenses had failed, it said.
Russia with heavy losses: explosions at Belarusian airfield
First report from Thursday, August 11:
Moscow – Several fires broke out in Belarus and Russia during the Ukraine war.
According to the
Kyiv Independent
, an airfield and a Russian military base near Moscow were affected.
Belarus reports that there have been explosions.
Russia has therefore suffered further losses in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports Russian army casualties on a daily basis.
Kyiv assumes 43,000 dead Russian soldiers.
The information cannot be independently verified.
(mse/sne with AFP/dpa)
