Losses for Russia: Ukraine liberates occupied settlement in Luhansk – Heavy fighting expected
Created: 2022-09-20 04:46
By: Helena Gries, Teresa Toth, Karolin Schäfer, Moritz Serif, Nadja Austel, Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier, Christian Stör
Ukraine's counteroffensive is progressing.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense publishes casualty statistics for Russia.
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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.
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The liberation of regions in Ukraine occupied by Russia is progressing.
According to Ukrainian sources, the town of Bilohorivka in the east of the country has been recaptured.
However, the liberation in the Luhansk region was more difficult than in Kharkiv due to the large number of Russian armed forces, said the region's governor, Serhiy Hajdaj.
A classroom damaged in a shell attack in Perevalsk, Luhansk Oblast.
(Archive image) © Alexander Reka/imago
"This element of surprise will no longer be there," Hajdaj said in an interview with Ukrainian radio station
NV
.
“Those who fled from the direction of Kharkiv are in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.” Fierce fighting is now taking place there.
Losses for Russia: Russian troops surrounded
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Russian troops are surrounded in southern Ukraine between the Ukrainian army and the banks of the Dnipro River.
"The fire control that we maintain over the crossings and transport routes across the Dnipro River makes them realize that they are caught between Ukrainian forces and the right bank of the river - namely the units stationed in that part of the Kherson Oblast," Nataliia Humeniuk said , spokeswoman for the Southern Task Force, in a Ukrainian news program.
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The occupiers were offered to lay down their arms and surrender.
"Therefore, they were offered an interim solution under the auspices of international humanitarian law or a return to their homes," Humeniuk said.
According to the spokeswoman, Ukraine is aware that some Russian soldiers lack morale and see no point in serving at the front.
"They see the example of the Eastern Front and it is very discouraging for them because they understand that such a course is also possible," Humeniuk said.
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In recent weeks and months, the Antonivka Bridge, which connects the river banks, has been repeatedly shelled by the Russian army.
Russia used the bridge to transport essential goods such as ammunition, fuel, and food.
News on the Ukraine war: Pro-Russian forces accuse "retaliatory attack" with 13 dead
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The separatists supported by Russia in the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk have accused Ukraine of an attack that killed 13 people.
"According to initial information," 13 civilians were killed in the "retaliatory attack" in the Kuibyshevskyi district in western Donetsk, Russian news agencies reported on Monday, citing statements by the city's Moscow-backed mayor, Alexei Kemsulin, in online networks.
The number of injured has yet to be determined, Kemsulin said.
"Nine projectiles with a caliber of 155 millimeters" were fired at the city from the village of Netailove, about 15 kilometers from Donetsk as the crow flies.
Kemsulin called on the population "only to leave the house if it is absolutely necessary".
The Ukrainian attack and the stated number of casualties could not be independently verified.
News about the Ukraine war: Ukraine claims to have destroyed a Russian military base
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Ukraine claims to have destroyed a Russian military base in the occupied Luhansk region.
Serhiy Haidai said the Russian base at Kadiivka was attacked on the night of September 19.
The official added that Ukraine also successfully attacked Russian military equipment and troops in Novoaidarsk.
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Russia is said to have lost four fighter jets in Ukraine in the last ten days.
The British Ministry of Defense said in its Sept. 19 intelligence update that Russia has lost about 55 fighter jets since the start of the full-scale war.
News about the Ukraine war: The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense publishes Russian casualties
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has updated the statistics on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war.
Accordingly, 54,650 soldiers fell - an overview.
Soldiers:
54,650
Aircraft:
251
Helicopters:
217
Tanks:
2212
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
4720
Artillery systems:
1313
Air defense systems:
168
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
312
Cars and other vehicles:
3581
Ships:
15
Unmanned Combat Drones:
920
As of Monday 19 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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About 200 Russian soldiers are said to have been killed by an explosion in the Russian-occupied city of Svatove.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, reported on September 18 that around 200 Russian occupiers were said to have been killed in the explosion in the Russian-held town of Svatove.
This is reported
by The Kyiv Independent.
A Svatove bus station is said to have been bombed by Ukraine.
Haidai reports this in its Telegram channel.
Ukraine War News: Ukrainian Air Force conducts 20 airstrikes
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According to the General Staff, the Ukrainian Air Force has carried out 20 airstrikes and successfully hit 15 Russian fortresses and four locations with its air defense systems.
Ukrainian artillery also hit nine Russian fortresses and seven checkpoints, as well as air defense systems, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook on Sunday evening.
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The military of Ukraine has fended off eight Russian attacks in the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian general staff said on Sunday evening (September 18) on Facebook.
According to the report, Ukrainian forces successfully repelled attacks near the villages of Vesela Dolyna and Maryinka in Donetsk Oblast, and near Hoptivka and Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast.
In the past day, Russia has launched three rocket attacks and 11 airstrikes, there have also been more than 40 rocket launcher attacks, and infrastructure in two dozen settlements has been damaged, according to a report by the
Kyiv Independent
.
The Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also announced on
Telegram
on Sunday evening that the Ukrainian military had crossed the Oskol River in the Kharkiv region.
As a result, the Ukrainian military controls not only the right, but also the left bank of the Oskol River.
Ukraine War News: Russian Army Corps Consists of Disabled Volunteers
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As a replacement for around 80,000 soldiers injured or killed in Ukraine and 5000 vehicles destroyed or captured, the Kremlin sent a 3rd army corps to war in the summer.
As the US business
magazine Forbes
now reports, on paper it is a powerful force with several brigades comprising 10,000 soldiers in a dozen or more battalions and equipped with hundreds of tanks and other vehicles.
However, the soldiers are mostly old, unfit volunteers and drug and alcohol addicts.
Forbes
writes that after the attack on Kharkiv Oblast, the corps was clearly inferior to the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia's troops lose "50 percent" of soldiers due to withdrawal
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.: As reported by
The Kyiv Independent
, Ukraine destroyed a Russian helicopter and five drones.
The Ukrainian Air Force Command reported that five Russian UAVs and one Ka-52 helicopter were destroyed in different areas.
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According to a statement from the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian units lost half their troops when retreating from the Kharkov region.
According to the report, some units of the Russian army lost “more than 50 percent of their personnel and more than 200 pieces of equipment” when retreating from the Kharkiv region.
Ukraine War News: Losses to Russia - 62 Russian Soldiers Killed
Update from Sunday, September 18, 6:55 a.m .:
The Ukrainian military destroys a barge with personnel and equipment in southern Ukraine.
This is reported
by The Kyiv Independent.
According to the Ukrainian Task Force "South", on September 17, Ukrainian forces killed 62 Russian soldiers and destroyed two UAVs and five armored vehicles.
Russian soldiers tried to advance but were reportedly pushed back by Ukrainian defenders in Kherson Oblast, the command said.
News about the Ukraine war: Task Force "South" reports successes - 33 Russian soldiers killed
+++ Update from Saturday, September 17, 7:05 a.m .:
The Ukrainian military destroys Russian equipment in southern Ukraine.
This is reported by the portal
The Kyiv Independent
.
According to the Ukrainian task force "South", Ukrainian forces killed 33 Russian soldiers and destroyed two Russian tanks, an Msta-B howitzer, a 120mm mortar and nine armored vehicles.
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.
Ukraine war news: Russian troops flee “under control”
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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.
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.
According to the summary of the armed forces, the situation in southern Ukraine remains tense.
The Ukrainian information could not be independently verified.
Ukraine war news: Heavy casualties for Russia - 350 soldiers die in one day
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)
