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Heavy losses for Russia: criticism of military leadership

2022-10-09T03:04:35.728Z


Heavy casualties for Russia: Ukraine hit eight weapons caches and three anti-aircraft systems Created: 2022-10-09 04:57 By: Moritz Serif, Karolin Schäfer, Tim Vincent Dicke, Jan Oeftger Russia suffered heavy losses in the Ukraine war. Can Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin no longer motivate his soldiers? The news ticker. Editor's note: This news ticker on the situation in Ukraine has ended. The curr


Heavy casualties for Russia: Ukraine hit eight weapons caches and three anti-aircraft systems

Created: 2022-10-09 04:57

By: Moritz Serif, Karolin Schäfer, Tim Vincent Dicke, Jan Oeftger

Russia suffered heavy losses in the Ukraine war.

Can Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin no longer motivate his soldiers?

The news ticker.

  • Editor's note:

    This news ticker on the situation in Ukraine has ended.

    The current information can be found in our new ticker here.

+++ 10:35 p.m .:

According to the general staff report, the Ukrainian troops repelled Russian attacks on numerous settlements that day.

According to the report, Ukrainian planes carried out eleven airstrikes during the day.

Eight areas with concentrated Russian weapons and equipment and three anti-aircraft systems were confirmed to have been hit.

In addition, according to the Ukrainian General Staff, the Ukrainian air defense forces shot down two drones and two helicopters belonging to the Russian armed forces.

Ukrainian missile forces and artillery also hit an area where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment were concentrated, a pontoon bridge crossing and an electronic warfare system.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine kills 350 Russian soldiers

+++ 4.10 p.m .:

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has reported current Russian losses in the Ukraine war.

350 soldiers have fallen compared to the previous day.

In addition, various types of vehicles were destroyed, it is said.

Soldiers:

61680 (+350)

Aircraft:

 266 (+0)

Helicopters:

 233 (+1)

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Tanks:

 2466 (+17)

Armored fighting vehicles:

 5093 (+29)

Artillery systems:

 1455 (+31)

Air defense systems: 

177 (+0)

Multiple Missile Launcher Systems:

 344 (+0)

Cars and other vehicles:

 3862 (+8)

Ships:

 15 (+0)

Unmanned Combat Drones:

 1067 (+20)

As of Thursday 7 October 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.

+++ 1:28 p.m .:

According to the British Ministry of Defense, Ukraine has destroyed at least 440 Russian battle tanks and another 650 armored vehicles since the beginning of the war.

That's more than half of the entire Ukrainian tank fleet, they said.

Heavy losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: criticism is growing

+++ 11.40 a.m .:

A high-ranking official employed by the Kremlin in the partially occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson sharply criticized the Russian military on Thursday (October 6).

In the recent past, reports of criticism of the military in the face of increasing military losses in Moscow have increased.

"Many are saying that the defense minister who let things get this far should just shoot himself like a [real] officer," Kirill Stremousov, the acting governor of the Russian-installed Kherson administration, said in a four-minute video posted on Jan was published Thursday on his Telegram channel.


Stremousov further noted that his harsh criticism was not aimed at the entire Russian Defense Ministry, but at a handful of "clumsy commanders".

Ukrainian forces have apparently advanced widely in the southern Kherson region in recent days and have recaptured a number of strategically important cities.

A man collects shrapnel after a shelling in the course of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in the town of Brianka in Luhansk.

(Archive image) © Valery Melnikov/imago

Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia loses more than 500 square kilometers of land

Update from Friday, October 7th, 10:39 a.m .:

In the Ukraine conflict, Russia is losing more and more land gains.

"Since October 1, more than 500 square kilometers of land and dozens of towns have been liberated in the Kherson region alone," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday evening (October 6).

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+++ 10:05 p.m .:

The Ukrainian defenders continue to achieve success in the Ukraine war.

In the meantime, advances have been made in the east of the Luhansk region, confirmed Serhiy Haidai, head of the regional military administration.

Ukrainian troops would now “move on in that direction,” Haidai wrote on Telegram.

However, he expects difficult battles in this oblast, since large parts of Luhansk have been conquered by Russia.

In addition, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin had meanwhile annexed the region to Russian territory.

“The liberation of the Lugansk region will be harder than that of the Kharkiv region.

All Russian servicemen who fled Kharkiv and Lyman regions ran in our direction, so the number of occupying troops increased,” the governor added.

In the contested Kherson region, the defenders have liberated more than 400 square kilometers of land, the news portal

Kyiv Independent

quoted a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military as saying on Thursday.

Despite the difficult situation at the front, which is "changing rapidly", the armed forces have achieved "quite convincing successes", said Natalia Humeniuk from the Southern Operations Command.

The Ukrainian army is advancing up to 20 kilometers in several directions along the front line, Humeniuk said.

Russia still occupies 80 percent of the oblast.

Losses in the Ukraine war: Russian soldiers call themselves "dead men"

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The morale of the Russian soldiers seems to have hit rock bottom.

Tapped conversations paint a desolate picture.

“Yesterday we were shot at three times by their damn helicopters.

Anti-tank guided missiles and Grads hit us every damn day,”

pravda.com

quoted a conversation between soldiers intercepted by Ukraine's internal intelligence service as saying.

They described themselves as "dead men".

According to one of the soldiers, the Russian troops do not have weapons at the level of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The West has repeatedly supplied Ukraine with armaments.

“They [Ukrainian Armed Forces] have everything.

All.

We don't have shit.

I'm telling you, things are not as they appear in Russia.

That's the reality, brother," said the soldier, who according to the security service is supposed to be fighting at the front in Cherson.

News in the Ukraine war: Zelenskyj sends message to Russia – “You have already lost”

+++ 5:19 p.m .:

In view of heavy Russian losses, the Ukrainian President was optimistic.

In his daily video message, Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke of the recapture of three other towns in the Cherson region.

The recent Russian attacks with Iranian combat drones on Ukrainian cities are futile.

"That doesn't help you anymore.

You've already lost," he said to the Russian leadership.

They can no longer motivate their own soldiers, said Zelenskyj.

After heavy casualties: Russia achieves military success

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After heavy losses, the Russian troops have reported another military success.

The town of Zaitseve in eastern Ukraine has been brought under Russian control, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in Moscow.

More than 120 soldiers from the 58th Panzergrenadier Brigade and the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade were killed on the Ukrainian side.

Ukraine has not confirmed Zaitseve's loss.

According to Konashenkov, Ukrainian soldiers have repeatedly tried to break through the Russian line of defense in the north of the Kherson region.

They were pushed back.

More than 100 soldiers of the Ukrainian army are said to have been killed.

In addition, Russia claims to have destroyed six tanks and several armored vehicles.

The information could not be independently verified.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine liberates 400 square kilometers - "And we continue"

+++ 2.10 p.m .:

According to their own statements, the Ukrainian military has recaptured more than 400 square kilometers of territory in the Cherson region within a few days in its counter-offensive.

Since the beginning of October, the troops have "liberated" more than 400 square kilometers in the region in the south of the country, wrote the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military command South, Natalia Gumenchyuk, in the messenger service Telegram.

“Our achievements are quite compelling.

We do not name the directions, but more than 400 square kilometers of the Kherson region have already been liberated from the invaders.

And we will continue,” added Gumenchyuk.

For days, Ukraine has been reporting land gains in the areas claimed by Russia in the east and south of the country, including the Luhansk region, which has been almost completely controlled by Russia up to now.

Ukraine war: Russia loses 20 kilometers and "faces a dilemma"

+++ 1:07 p.m .:

The Russian army continues to lose ground.

As the British Ministry of Defense writes in its daily briefing, Russia has been pushed back 20 kilometers in southern Ukraine.

However, Ukraine cannot yet threaten the most important Russian defense positions.

In the Nowa-Kakhovka sector on the Dnieper River in particular, the troops of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin are under pressure.

"The damaged river crossing over the Dnipro in this area is still one of the few options for supplying troops with supplies," the British said - and further: "Russia faces a dilemma: the withdrawal of combat troops across the Dnipro makes the Defending the rest of the Kherson region more defensible, but the political imperative will be that they stay and defend.”

Heavy casualties for Russia: Russian armored unit surrenders

+++ 11.39 a.m .:

Russia’s military is being pushed further and further into the defensive in Ukraine.

A video is circulating on social media in which a desperate tank unit appears to be giving up.

The tank - reportedly a BMP-2 - is driving in a field toward a group of Ukrainian soldiers, with a white flag stretched around the cannon barrel.

The Ukrainian troops approach the vehicle, and Russian fighters climb out of the tank with their hands up.

You will be captured.

The clip is said to have been recorded in the embattled Cherson region.

It was not independently checked for authenticity.

Ukraine kills 330 Russian soldiers and destroys Iranian kamikaze drones

+++ 10.19 a.m .:

According to Ukraine, the country’s armed forces have destroyed several Iranian kamikaze drones.

More than a month ago, Iran sent Kremlin boss Putin many of the unmanned aerial vehicles to be used in the war against Ukraine.

“On the night of October 5-6, Russian occupying forces attacked Ukraine using Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.

Nine Kamikaze drones were destroyed by Air Command South anti-aircraft forces," the Air Force said in a Telegram post.

Heavy casualties for Russia: Ukraine kills 330 more soldiers

Update from Thursday, October 6, 9:16 a.m.:

According to Ukrainian information, 330 Russian soldiers were killed within one day.

This was announced by the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv.

In addition, among other things, another 14 tanks, ten artillery systems, 15 unmanned drones and 26 armored fighting vehicles were destroyed.

"The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses (of the past day) in the Kramatorsk, Avdiyivka and Kryvyi Rih directions," the ministry said in a statement.

  • Soldiers:

    61,330

  • Aircraft:

     266

  • Helicopters:

     232

  • Tanks:

     2449

  • Armored Fighting Vehicles:

     5064

  • Artillery systems:

     1424

  • Air defense systems: 

    177

  • Multiple rocket launcher systems:

     344

  • Cars and other vehicles:

     3854

  • Ships:

     15

  • Unmanned Combat Drones:

     1047

  • As of Thursday October 6, 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.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine shoots down drone

+++ 3:02 p.m .:

According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces shot down an enemy drone belonging to the Russian military.

The unmanned aerial vehicle - probably of the Russian type Orlan-10 - was brought down over the sea near the city of Ochakiv.

"The drone attempted to conduct aerial reconnaissance," Ukraine's Southern Air Command said on Facebook.

Losses for Russia: "Recapture of Luhansk has begun"

+++ 1:51 p.m .:

Now Russia is also threatened with a debacle in the Luhansk region previously controlled by Russia.

According to Ukraine, it has recaptured areas in the region previously controlled by Russia.

"The reconquest of the Luhansk region has (...) begun," said Ukrainian governor Serhiy Gajdaj in the messenger service Telegram.

Several settlements have already been "liberated" and the Ukrainian army has raised the Ukrainian flag there.

Luhansk is one of four Ukrainian regions that Russia has declared annexed.

President Vladimir Putin signed legislation on the annexation of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions on Wednesday.

Russia on the retreat: "We can't win anymore"

+++ 10.51 a.m .:

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has announced the latest data on Russian losses in the Ukraine war.

Within a day, the defenders would have killed 200 soldiers.

In addition, four helicopters, eleven tanks and a multiple rocket launcher were destroyed.

"The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses (of the past day) in the Kramatorsk and Kryvyi Rih directions," the ministry said in a statement.

Russia on the retreat: "We can't win anymore"

+++ 9:05 a.m .:

While Ukraine is reporting further territorial gains in the war against Russia, Vladimir Putin’s attack in Russia itself is increasingly being criticized.

With Vitaly Votanovsky, the next military veteran is now openly opposing the Russian president.

"This idiot has embarked on a war against the whole world," the former lieutenant colonel in the Russian Air Force told the

Moscow Times.

"He created conditions under which we can no longer win."

Votanovsky is not the only military veteran to openly oppose Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war.

Other prominent critics include Nikolai Prokudin and Sergei Gulyaev, both of whom fought for Russia in the Afghan war.

Update from Wednesday, October 5, 6:35 a.m .:

Russia has to accept further losses from conquered Ukrainian territories.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that localities in the Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts were brought back under Ukrainian control.

"The Ukrainian army is advancing fairly quickly and powerfully in the current defense operation in the south of our country," Zelenskyy said on Tuesday evening (October 4).

Especially in the area around Cherson, in the south of the country, Ukraine was able to reconquer some areas.

According to the Ukrainian armed forces, eight settlements were regained from Russian control.

Heavy losses for Russia: Areas near Kharkiv are also lost

+++ 5.30 p.m .:

After the Russian losses of territory in southern Ukraine, places in the north-east have now also been liberated by the Ukrainian military.

According to Ukrainian sources, the defense troops have liberated the villages of Bohuslavka and Borivska Andriivka in the Kharkiv region from the Russian occupiers.

Bohuslavka Municipal Council wrote on Twitter: “On 04/10/2022 Bohuslavka met the liberators!

Glory to Ukraine!

Glory to the heroes!” The Council also published pictures and videos showing flags being raised in the liberated settlements and the Ukrainian troops being greeted by the population.

Heavy Losses: Russia loses more territory

+++ 3:21 p.m .:

Russia continues to record heavy losses in the Ukraine war – not only in soldiers and material, but also in areas.

The head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote to the Telegram news service about five places that had been recaptured.

Videos from the long-fought village of Davydiv Brid and the villages of Velyka Oleksandrivka and Starossillya on the Inhulets River circulated on social networks.

In addition, Ukrainian units are said to have moved into Dudchany on the Dnipro River.

Official confirmations were initially not available.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys Iranian kamikaze drone

Update from Tuesday, October 4, 2:07 p.m .:

A kamikaze drone from the Russian armed forces was shot down in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa.

The Southern Operational Command said on Facebook that it was an Iranian Shahed 136 UAV.

The anti-aircraft missile regiment shot down the drone over the sea.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys more than 40 tanks

First report from Tuesday, October 4:

In the Ukraine war, fighting between the Ukrainian armed forces and the soldiers of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin continues.

The Ministry of Defense in Kyiv has released the latest figures on Russian casualties.

Within a day, 370 other fighters from Russia were killed.

In addition to two destroyed drones, a fighter jet and 27 armored fighting vehicles, more than 40 tanks were also destroyed.

In 24 hours, Ukraine destroyed 44 tanks from Russia, the Defense Ministry said.

"FORTY-FOUR TANKS," wrote the Kiev officials on Twitter.

The Russian troops suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Kryvyi Rih regions.

(with agencies)

Source: merkur

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