Heavy Losses for Russia - "Powerful Blast" shakes airfield
Created: 09/17/2022, 04:53
By: Helena Gries, Teresa Toth, Karolin Schäfer, Moritz Serif, Nadja Austel, Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier, Christian Stör
Ukraine's counteroffensive is progressing.
The Ukrainian military publishes the losses of Russia: the situation in the news ticker.
Editor's note:
You can read news about Russian losses in the Ukraine conflict in this news ticker.
Some of the information comes from warring factions in the Ukraine war and cannot be checked directly and independently.
Fighting in the air:
The Ukrainian military shot down several Russian fighter jets.
+++ 4.30 p.m .:
In the afternoon there was apparently a “strong explosion” at an airfield in the city of Melitopol (Zaporizhia region) occupied by Russian troops.
This was stated by Mayor Ivan Fyodorov, according to a report by the
Kyiv Independent
news portal .
He did not give any further details.
The information is not independently verifiable.
The east of Ukraine is fought over in the war against Russia.
© Kostiantyn Liberov/dpa
+++ 10.30 a.m .:
The Ukrainian general staff has updated the statistics on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war.
Accordingly, more than 54,000 soldiers have fallen - an overview.
Soldiers:
54,050
Aircraft:
250
Helicopters:
216
Tanks:
2199
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4690
Artillery Systems:
1302
Air defense systems:
168
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
312
Cars and other vehicles:
3550
Ships:
15
Unmanned Combat Drones:
908
As of Friday 16 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.
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Update from Friday, September 16, 8 a.m.:
The chairman of the self-proclaimed so-called “Luhansk People's Republic” (LPR), Leonid Pasechnik, admits the losses along the entire front in the Ukrainian army's offensive.
The Ukrainians have approached the borders of the "Luhansk People's Republic", "but there is no reason to panic," said Pasechnik.
Meanwhile, according to the news portal
Nexta
, the Russian city of Valuiki near the Ukrainian border was also attacked.
More than 20 rockets are said to have hit the city during the night.
Russian troops flee 'under control'
+++ 11.30 a.m .:
As the British Ministry of Defense explained on Twitter, the Russian armed forces have “largely withdrawn from the area west of the Oskil River”.
The river lies north of the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
While some Russian troops fled "under control," others fled "in apparent panic."
High-quality equipment left behind by the fleeing Russian troops only underscores the disorganized withdrawal of many forces, it said.
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Ukrainian soldiers protect themselves from a mortar attack in a village near Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on September 13.
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News about the Ukraine war: Ukrainian military shoots down Russian fighter jets
+++ 10.30 a.m .:
Four fighter jets from the Russian army were apparently shot down in Ukrainian airspace on Thursday.
According to a report by the
Kyiv Independent
news portal, the Ukrainian general staff said so .
These were three SU-25 fighter jets and one SU-24 aircraft.
According to the general statistics on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war, which the General Staff also publishes daily, 250 Russian aircraft have been shot down since the beginning of the invasion at the end of February.
According to the latest report, there are now 254. The information comes from a war party and is therefore not independently verifiable.
Russia Losses: Kherson Offensive Ratio Announced
+++ 8:20 a.m .:
In the current offensive in the Cherson region, the armed forces of Ukraine seem to be inflicting high losses on the troops from Russia.
Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, recently gave details of the losses on both sides
on the Ukrainian
TV channel Kanal 24 .
The ratio of casualties is said to be around 9 or 10 to one, meaning that 9 to 10 Russian soldiers are said to be killed in the offensive for every loss suffered by Ukraine.
"We are not only breaking stereotypes at the military level, but also in the eyes of the representatives of the NATO countries and our partners," Danilov classified the relationship.
Update from Thursday, September 15, 6:45 a.m .:
In the south, the Ukrainian armed forces have inflicted further losses on Russian troops.
In addition to two ammunition depots, howitzers and vehicles are said to have been destroyed, according to the Ukrainian Operations Command South.
Announced casualties on the Russian side (September 14):
Msta-B howitzers:
5
2S1 Howitzer “Carnation”:
1
Armored vehicles:
13
Ammo storage:
2
Other equipment:
31
Source: Command South
According to the summary of the armed forces, the situation in southern Ukraine remains tense.
The Ukrainian information could not be independently verified.
+++ 8:00 p.m.:
The Ukrainian military has stated that the Russian forces are trying to withdraw their S-300 air defense systems “deep into the temporarily captured areas”.
Russian air defenses have become more vulnerable since Ukraine acquired US-made High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM),
according to
CNN .
The Ukrainian air force itself carried out eleven attacks, the general staff report continued.
In addition, Ukrainian missile units "attacked areas where the enemy's manpower and combat equipment are concentrated," including in Kherson.
Heavy losses in the Ukraine war: Russia admits defeat for the time being
+++ 3:00 p.m .:
Since the beginning of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian troops have apparently liberated more than 300 settlements.
This emerges from an analysis by the news portal
Kyiv Independent
.
This began on September 6th and affected the Kharkiv region in particular.
The information is not independently verifiable.
+++ 12.00 p.m .:
The Ukrainian General Staff reports that the Ukrainian military has repelled eight Russian attacks in the last 24 hours.
Ukrainian forces successfully repelled attacks near Avdiivka, Spirne and Maiorsk in the Donetsk region.
Ukraine war news: Heavy casualties for Russia - 350 soldiers die in one day
Update from Wednesday, September 14, 10:30 a.m .:
The Ukrainian general staff has announced new figures for Russian losses in the Ukraine war.
As the news portals
Kyiv Independent
and
Nexta
unanimously report, more than 53,600 soldiers from the Russian military have already died.
Compared to the publication on Tuesday (September 13), 350 dead soldiers have been added.
The data in a compact overview:
Soldiers:
53,650
Aircraft:
246
Helicopters:
215
Tanks:
2180
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4665
Artillery systems:
1290
Air defense systems:
167
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
311
Cars and other vehicles:
3501
Ships:
15
Unmanned Combat Drones:
908
As of Wednesday 14 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.
First report from Wednesday, September 14, 7 a.m.:
As the think tank “Institute for the Study of War” reports, the Kremlin admits defeat for the first time since the beginning of the war.
Accordingly, Russian officials and media propagandists are currently discussing the reasons for the Russian defeat in the Kharkiv Oblast, the Institute for War Studies wrote in its latest update.
The Russian Defense Ministry tried to explain Russia's defeat in ways similar to the "goodwill gesture" of withdrawing from Snake Island or the decision to prioritize the "liberation" of Donbass after the defeat around Kyiv, but the answer drew criticism online, so the ISW.
(na/hg/kas/tt/mse/cs with dpa/AFP)