Heavy casualties?

Attack on Black Sea Fleet – Russia gives details

Created: 10/31/2022 5:02 am

By: Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Karolin Schäfer, Tim Vincent Dicke, Vincent Büssow, Lucas Maier

Russia suffers heavy casualties in the Ukraine War.

The number of soldiers killed is increasing steeply.

The news ticker.

• Russia is facing problems:

  the troops from Russia could not survive the winter.

• Russia is running out of missiles:

  the Kremlin is buying supplies from North Korea and Iran.

• News from the Ukraine war:

  all the news about the Ukraine conflict in our 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 Russian military has announced details of the drone attack on Saturday morning (October 29) on the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.

Moscow used the attack as an opportunity to suspend the grain agreement.

Officially, the Kremlin now speaks of minor damage from the attack by combat drones at sea and from the air.

However, no further details were given.

So the exact extent is not known.

The image released on 02/17/2022 by Planet Labs PBC shows the port city on the Russian-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea with the port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

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Heavy Russian losses: Soldiers die as a result of rocket and artillery attacks

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A video published by the paratroopers of Ukraine shows how an infantry fighting vehicle is destroyed.

According to the unit, Russian soldiers are said to have been in the tank.

Soldiers can also be seen in the area of ​​the attack in the published video.

The tank is said to be a BMP-1.

According to the paratroopers, the attack on the Russian army took place in the Donetsk region.

The authenticity of the video has not yet been independently verified.

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The operational command “South” reports losses for Russia from the south of Ukraine.

According to reports, 57 Russian soldiers lost their lives as a result of rocket and artillery attacks on Saturday (October 29).

In addition, according to Ukrainian information, various military material was destroyed in the attacks.

Among other things, a tank, several howitzers and an anti-aircraft system.

The information could not be independently verified.

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"It was a good 24 hours," said the supreme command of the Ukrainian armed forces on Sunday morning: "The occupiers have suffered heavy losses on the fronts in Donetsk and Lyman." Within just one day, Ukraine- 950 Russian soldiers died in the war.

In the same period, almost a hundred military vehicles, including 13 tanks, were also destroyed.

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Ukraine celebrates further successes against Russia on the battlefield.

According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the armed forces managed to destroy one anti-aircraft tank, one rocket launcher, several mortars and howitzers, as well as one tank and seven armored vehicles.

57 Russian soldiers are said to have been killed.

• Soldiers: 

  71,200 (+950 on previous day)

• Aircraft:

   274 (+1)

• Helicopters:

   252

• Tanks:

   2672 (+13)

• Armored fighting vehicles:

   5453 (+52)

• Artillery systems:

   1724 (+16)

• Air defense systems: 

  197 (+2)

• Multiple rocket launcher systems:

   383 (+3)

• Cars and other vehicles:

   4120 (+13)

• Ships:

   16 (+0)

• Unmanned Combat Drones:

   1412 (+6)

• As of Sunday 30 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.

The high losses that Russia has to suffer in the Ukraine war are apparently leading to Putin's army withdrawing in places.

After the evacuation order for Kherson, Russia is said to have started to resettle the residents of the towns of Nova Kakhovka and Beryslav.

This is according to a report by the US Institute for the Study of War.

Both cities are like Cherson on the Dnieper, but further upstream.

Ukrainian soldiers attack Russian positions in the Kherson region.

© BULENT KILIC/AFP

Massive Russian losses: "Kaliningrad Army" crushed

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The 11th Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces has suffered massive losses in the war against Ukraine, reports

.

The US magazine expects that it will take many months for the large association to regain at least a fraction of its former strength.

Before the war broke out, the 11th Army Corps was said to have around 12,000 Russian soldiers with around 100 tanks, a few hundred armored personnel carriers and other heavy military equipment.

The 11th Army Corps is actually supposed to defend the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

Most recently, the large association fought in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv.

Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia completes partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists

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According to Ukraine, Russia has made no progress in the war against each other even after partial mobilization.

Despite an excess of weapons and other soldiers, including conscripted reservists, the enemy is unsuccessful, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zalushny said in Kyiv on Saturday (October 29).

The Russian Defense Ministry had previously announced that the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists had been completed.

Losses in the Ukraine war: Kadyrov admits losses

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Putin’s confidante Ramzan Kadyrov has admitted his own losses in the Ukraine war.

Kadyrov, ruler of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, wrote on Telegram that 23 of his soldiers died and 58 others were injured in an attack.

Ukraine had previously reported the attack.

The Chechen troops are said to have revealed their location through recordings they had published on social media.

Losses in the Ukraine war: Ukraine reports 70,000 fallen Russian soldiers since the beginning of the war

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According to Ukrainian information, another 550 Russian fighters were killed within one day – 70,250 enemy fighters are said to have fallen since the beginning.

This was announced by the General Staff in Kyiv.

The figures given for destroyed vehicles are unusually high.

19 tanks, 23 armored fighting vehicles and 19 other companions are said to have been destroyed.

Expert sees further losses coming to Russia

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A military expert sees further losses in Russia in the Ukraine war.

Among other things, wintering in the Ukraine poses a major challenge for the Russians, as Niklas Masuhr from the Center for Security Studies at the ETH University in Zurich said.

"The troops are in such bad shape that it's not clear if they can handle it," he added.

Losses in the Ukraine War: Ukraine destroys three ammunition depots

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The Ukrainian armed forces apparently managed to inflict further serious losses on the Russian army.

Accordingly, three Russian ammunition depots in southern Ukraine are said to have been destroyed.

In addition, 34 Russian soldiers were killed, two grenade launchers destroyed, four tanks, one howitzer and three mortars.

This is reported by the Ukrainian high command of the southern armed forces.

However, the information about Russia's losses in the Ukraine war cannot be independently verified.

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The Ukrainian defenders continue to achieve success in the Russian war of aggression.

For example, the strategically important highway between Svatove and Kreminna in the Luhansk Oblast is "practically under the control of the Ukrainian armed forces," said the region's governor, Serhiy Haidai, on Facebook.

"Despite the bad weather, continuous rain on several days in a row, there is progress." In the course of the offensive, settlements were also liberated.

More detailed information on this should follow from the Ukrainian general staff.

Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia runs out of missiles

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According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia is apparently running out of rockets.

That's why the Russian military changed its strategy in the Ukraine war.

The line of fire is therefore mainly the critical infrastructure and no longer military bases, said Yurii Ihna, spokesman for the air force.

Energy plants in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were recently attacked.

Losses in the Ukraine War: 300 Russian Kamikaze drones destroyed

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According to its own statements, Ukraine has shot down more than 300 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones since September 13.

This was said by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Command, Yuriy Ihnat, at a briefing by the Ukrainian news agency

.

Ihnat explained that the Russian military has started to use drones less frequently.

He attributed this circumstance to the fact that the stocks of drones may be running out.

News on the Ukraine war: Kadyrov admits heavy losses – and rages against “Satanists”

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov admitted heavy losses in his own ranks after being shelled by Ukrainian troops.

"23 fighters died and 58 were injured," Kadyrov wrote on Friday night (October 28) on his Telegram channel.

Ukrainian sources reported earlier this week that a Chechen unit in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson revealed its location via photos on social media and was hit by artillery fire.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine destroys weapons depots and hangars

Update from Friday, October 28, 6:42 a.m .:

According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces killed dozens of Russian soldiers in the south of the country on Thursday (October 27).

The Air Force carried out 16 attacks on enemy positions in the direction of the Southern Bug River, hitting equipment depots, the Southern Operative Command said on Facebook.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine discovers camouflaged tanks and destroys them and their occupants

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In the south of Ukraine, a troop of paratroopers was able to spot camouflaged tanks from the Russian armed forces.

As a result, they and their occupants were taken under artillery fire and destroyed, as reported by the press service of the Ukrainian paratroopers.

Heavy losses for Russia: Ukraine kills over 50 soldiers in the south

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The Ukrainian army is also reporting successes from the south of the country.

According to the South Command, it carried out around 190 rocket and mortar attacks.

Ukraine destroys barracks and kills ten officers

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Ukraine says it has destroyed a Russian barracks in Luhansk Oblast.

About 60 Russian military personnel are said to have been killed, including at least ten officers.

This was announced by the governor of the Luhansk region Serhii Haidai.

News about the Ukraine war: the terror of the kamikaze drones is getting smaller

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Does Russia have to use a new tactic soon?

Iran's kamikaze drones provided Russian momentum in the war against Ukraine - but the fear of unmanned aerial vehicles seems to be diminishing at least a little.

According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces are now shooting down around 80 percent of the drones.

Russia is driving its own soldiers “to their deaths” in Ukraine

Update from Thursday, October 27, 11:51 a.m .:

Volodymyr Zelenskyj has again condemned Russia’s actions in the Ukraine war.

According to the Ukrainian President, the "madness of the Russian command" is currently most evident in the region around Donetsk.

"Day after day and for months they drive people to their deaths there," said the Ukrainian President in a speech on Wednesday evening (October 26).

Russia, meanwhile, continues to record heavy losses.

Russia's Ukraine War Losses: 320 Soldiers Killed

First report from Thursday, October 27th:

Kiev – For Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin, the Ukraine war is still not going as hoped from Russia's point of view.

The Russian army has suffered heavy casualties in the fighting, and many soldiers have lost their lives in the neighboring country.

War equipment is also being destroyed in large numbers by the Ukrainian fighters.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has now released the latest figures on Russian losses.

Within a day, Ukrainian soldiers could have killed another 320 enemy fighters.

Among other things, it was also possible to destroy a fighter jet, a military helicopter, three tanks and 13 armored fighting vehicles.

"Beat the occupier!

Let's win together! "It was said by the Ministry from Kyiv.

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The Ukrainian Air Force provided more detailed information on the downed Russian aircraft in its Telegram channel.

"On October 27 at around 8 a.m., a unit of the Kherson anti-aircraft missile brigade of the South Air Command shot down a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter," the Air Force wrote in the messenger service.

40 minutes later, a Su-25 fighter plane was destroyed in the Odessa region.

The Luftwaffe spoke of a "morning of good news".

(with agencies)