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Ukrainian military: Russia has suffered significant casualties in the south

2022-09-05T05:17:20.427Z


Heavy casualties for Russia: Russian military unit in southern Ukraine refuses to fight Created: 09/05/2022, 07:08 By: Moritz Serif, Johanna Soll, Christian Stör, Lucas Maier The situation worsens for Russia and the Russian army in the Ukraine war. Ukraine reports successes in the counteroffensive in the south. The news ticker. Editor  's note: Some of the information on the Ukraine conflict c


Heavy casualties for Russia: Russian military unit in southern Ukraine refuses to fight

Created: 09/05/2022, 07:08

By: Moritz Serif, Johanna Soll, Christian Stör, Lucas Maier

The situation worsens for Russia and the Russian army in the Ukraine war.

Ukraine reports successes in the counteroffensive in the south.

The news ticker.

  • Editor

     's note: Some of the information on the Ukraine conflict comes from warring factions and cannot be directly checked independently.

Update from Monday, September 5, 7:05 a.m .:

As the portal

The Kyiv Independent

reports , a Russian military unit in southern Ukraine refuses to fight.

According to the Ukrainian task force "South", the Russian 127th regiment of the 1st army corps is refusing to perform its duties due to lack of support and poor conditions, including lack of water.

According to the Ukrainian military, the special services of the Russian occupation forces took action against the personnel and removed them from their positions.

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Ukraine-News: Heavy losses for Russia in counter-offensive in the south

+++ 2:00 p.m .:

The Ukrainian military is said to be able to shoot down between 50 and 70 percent of the Russian missiles.

This is reported by the

ArmyInform

news agency , citing Mykola Zhyrnov, head of the Kiev military administration. The major general nevertheless complains about the insufficient number of air defense and radar systems.

+++ 11.00 a.m .:

The Ukrainian general staff has published the latest data on Russian losses in the Ukraine war.

According to this, Russia has lost almost 49,500 soldiers in combat since the invasion began on February 24.

In addition, 236 aircraft and 206 helicopters were destroyed.

This is reported by the Kyiv Independent

news portal

.

The numbers at a glance:

  • Soldiers: 

    49,500

  • Aircraft:

     236

  • Helicopters:

     206

  • Tanks:

     2049

  • Armored Fighting Vehicles:

     4430

  • Artillery systems:

     1147

  • Air defense systems: 

    156

  • Multiple rocket launcher systems:

     294

  • Cars and other vehicles:

     3276

  • Ships:

     15

  • Unmanned combat drones:

     864

  • As of Sunday 4 September 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.

+++ 9:00 a.m .:

According to information from Kiev, Ukraine has again inflicted heavy losses on the Russian armed forces in the south.

The South Task Force reported that on September 3, 138 Russian soldiers were killed in action.

In addition, nine tanks, one Msta-B howitzer, one Uragan multiple rocket launcher, one S-300 missile system, one 152mm howitzer gun and 18 units of armored vehicles were destroyed.

A completely destroyed Russian T-72 main battle tank stands in Kyiv Oblast.

© Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/dpa

Update from Sunday, September 4, 6:15 a.m .:

After media reports of explosions in the city of Cherson occupied by the Russian military, the Ukrainian general staff announced that they had destroyed the base of a special unit of troops loyal to Moscow.

In addition, Ukrainian media transported images that another bridge over the Dnipro near Nowa Kakhovka was said to have been disabled.

Meanwhile, the Russian army was trying to advance in Donbass, the general staff said.

Attacks have come in several directions.

However, they were all repelled.

Ukraine war news: $26.5 million worth of Russian military equipment destroyed

+++ 2.30 p.m .:

Russia continues to struggle with heavy losses in the Ukraine war.

Now the supreme commander of the Ukrainian armed forces announced via Facebook that two Bayraktar drones had destroyed Russian military equipment worth $26.5 million in just three days.

According to Valery Zaluzhnyi, from August 31 to September 2, eight Russian T-72 tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, an Akatsuya self-propelled howitzer, as well as other howitzers, totaling almost $26.5 million were destroyed.

According to Zaluzhnyi, the drones also damaged five T-72 tanks and one armored personnel carrier, costing an additional $1.85 million.

+++ 9.30 a.m .:

According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, several Russian checkpoints and ammunition depots were destroyed during air force combat operations on September 2nd.

The Ukrainian military also carried out a drone attack in which two units of Russian armored equipment were destroyed.

According to the General Staff, a convoy of Russian trucks heading towards Zaporizhia was also destroyed.

News about the Ukraine war: Losses for Russia - tanks and howitzers destroyed in the south

Update from Saturday, September 3rd, 6:30 a.m.:

According to Ukrainian information, Russia had to accept significant losses in the counter-offensive in the south.

Task Force South reported that 106 Russian soldiers were killed and a significant amount of equipment destroyed, including at least 14 T-72 and T-62 tanks, an Msta-B howitzer, a self-propelled artillery and mortar machine in airborne, two Uragan multiple rocket launchers, three 152 mm howitzer guns, a 120 mm mobile mortar, two unmanned combat aircraft and 35 armored vehicle units.

The Ukrainian military also hit a Russian command and observation post, a pontoon bridge, three ammunition depots and two military supply points.

+++ 10:17 p.m .:

According to CNN, the Ukrainian military destroyed a ferry crossing used by Russian forces across the Dnipro River in the south of the country.

Missile and artillery units "flew effective attacks on the ferry crossing near the village of Lvove [Beryslav District] and on two areas where enemy forces were concentrated," the military's South Command is quoted as saying.

Another Russian ammunition depot was destroyed in the Beryslav district of the city of Kherson and a Russian Su-25 fighter jet was shot down in the same area.

+++ 2:05 p.m .:

According to the Ukrainian secret service, Russia can only send around 300,000 to 350,000 soldiers to Ukraine.

According to Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of the Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Russia has been suffering from a shortage of troops since the beginning of the war.

Ukraine war news: Six ammunition depots destroyed

+++ 1:20 p.m .:

The anti-aircraft missile unit of the Ukrainian Air Force has a cartographer drone [the Russian reconnaissance drone - note d.

Red.] shot down, which belongs to the family of the Ptero multipurpose drone complex.

This is reported by

Ukrainska Pravda

.

Accordingly, the drone was shot down on September 2 at around 9 a.m. over Mykolaiv Oblast.

+++ 10.50 a.m .:

According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces have destroyed six ammunition depots in the south of the country occupied by Russian troops.

Five ammunition depots were destroyed in the Kherson region, the Ukrainian military's "South" command announced on its Facebook page on Friday.

In addition, a depot is said to have been destroyed in the city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhia region.

The information cannot be verified independently.   

Update from Friday, September 2, 6:25 a.m .:

As reported by

The Kyiv Independent

, the Ukrainian general staff reports: Ukrainian troops are repelling Russian attacks in four directions in the Donbas.

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian advances near Sloviansk, Bakhmut, Avdivka and Novopavlivka in the Donetsk region were repelled.

News about the Ukraine war: Heavy losses - Heavy counter-offensive in Russian-occupied region

+++ 7:00 p.m .:

After the start of a counter-offensive in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Cherson, according to information from Kiev, “heavy fighting” is now taking place in the area.

There were "strong explosions all day and all night," said the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The armed forces had started "offensives in different directions".

Munitions depots and all major bridges across the Dnipro River, which Russian troops use for supplies, have been destroyed, reports the European Views website.

+++ 2 p.m .: According to

BBC

reports, Russia has

lost 151 members of the “GRU” special forces, including almost every fourth officer, and 245 members of the Russian National Guard, including members of special forces.

Some 67 Russian military pilots have died, 2 a significant loss considering that training a single sniper pilot can take 15 to 17 years and cost between 12 and 14 million dollars.

According to the

BBC

, the Russian units of the combined forces were not prepared for offensive operations.

The reports are not independently verifiable.

News about the Ukraine war: Task Force "South" reports successes in counter-offensive

First report from Thursday, September 1, 6:30 a.m.:

Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south increases Russian losses of troops and equipment.

This is reported by the news portal

Kyiv Independent.

According to the Task Force South, Ukrainian forces destroyed 201 Russian soldiers, 12 T-72 tanks, 18 armored vehicles, more than a dozen different artillery units and 6 ammunition depots.

The Ukrainian Air Force has also attacked several Russian command and control posts in the region, Ukrainian Defense officials said.

(lm/mse/ktho with dpa/AFP)

Source: merkur

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