Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia's collaborators leave the next town

Created: 2022-11-28Updated: 2022-11-28 06:40

By: Sandra Kathe, Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Moritz Serif, Andreas Apetz, Christian Stör

Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war.

In one town, all the collaborators have disappeared.

The news ticker.

• Losses in figures:

  Kiev announces Russia's losses.

• Heavy casualties for Russia:

  Donetsk region a possible starting point for an offensive.

• Editor's note:

  Read the latest developments in the Ukraine conflict in our news ticker.

  The information on the Ukraine war processed here comes partly from the warring parties in Russia and Ukraine.

  They can therefore not be independently checked in part.

Update from Monday, November 28, 6:39 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, all Russian collaborators have left the city of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region.

This is reported by the news portal

, citing the National Center of Resistance of Ukraine.

This assumes that the collaborators left the city for fear of imminent liberation from the Russian occupying forces.

Ukraine war: Russian base hit hard – hospital is “overwhelmed”

+++ 11.30 p.m .:

Russia is now planning a new mobilization in response to the heavy losses in the Ukraine war.

President Putin is reportedly planning a "wave of mobilization."

A first concrete start date is already circulating.

A Ukrainian Armed Forces MLRS multiple rocket launcher.

The army shells Russian positions with it every day.

© Aris Messinis / AFP

+++ 8.30 p.m .:

The Ukrainian general staff has confirmed the destruction of a Russian camp near Svatove in Luhansk.

The facility was hit by artillery fire on Friday (November 25).

According to the authorities, around 70 people are said to have stayed there.

How many of them were killed or injured is unknown.

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The hospital not far away in the town of Shchastya is said to be "overwhelmed", which is why the wounded now have to be taken to Luhansk: The local hospitals in the Shchastya district [...] are overwhelmed by the large number of wounded.

The enemy is forced to medically evacuate wounded soldiers to Luhansk," the General Staff said.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine War: Several Russian bases hit

+++ 6.30 p.m .:

As reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, the armed forces were able to celebrate successes on several fronts in Donbass on Sunday.

As a result, Ukrainian soldiers repelled several Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka in Luhansk region and Bilogorivka, Mariinka, Verkhnyokamianske and Spirne in Donetsk region.

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In addition, the Ukrainian army hit two Russian military bases using rocket launchers and artillery.

In the course of Sunday, numerous Russian soldiers, weapons and military equipment are said to have been damaged.

The information is not independently verifiable.

+++ 3:30 p.m .:

There are signs that Russia could be ready to give up the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

This was stated by Petro Kotin, president of the national nuclear power company Energoatom, on Ukrainian television.

"In the past few weeks we have received information that they may be preparing to leave the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant."

News about the Ukraine war: Russia loses more soldiers and drones

+++ 1.30 p.m .:

Ukrainian marines injured or killed 33 Russian soldiers and destroyed two Russian drones on Saturday (November 26).

This was announced by the Ukrainian Navy on Facebook on Sunday (November 27).

Further Russian losses would be determined at the moment.

This information cannot be independently verified.

News about the Ukraine war: Heavy losses for Russia in the Donetsk region

+++ 11.30 a.m .:

According to British secret services, Russia has suffered many casualties in the hard-fought Donetsk region.

According to a report by the British Defense Ministry, around the towns of Pavlivka and Wuhledar in the south of the region there have been intense fighting over the past two weeks, with heavy casualties for the Russian marines.

London also sees the fighting as a sign that Russia sees the region as a possible starting point for a northbound offensive.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine War: Another 600 Russian soldiers dead

+++ 9:00 am:

Ukrainian forces killed 600 Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine on Saturday (November 26).

This was announced by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Facebook.

Since the start of the Ukraine war, 87,310 Russian soldiers have been killed in action.

The General Staff has also released current data on destroyed aircraft, helicopters, tanks and other military equipment - an overview of Russia's losses:

• Soldiers:

  87,310 (+600 on the previous day)

• Aircraft:

  278

• Helicopters:

  261

• Tanks:

  2905 (+4)

• Armored fighting vehicles: 

  5856 (+8)

• Artillery systems: 

  1897 (+1)

• Air defense systems:

   209

• Multiple Rocket Launchers:

   395

• Cars and other vehicles:

   4412 (+6)

• Ships:

   16

• Unmanned Combat Drones:

   1555 (+1)

(as of Sunday, November 27)

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.

Losses to Russia: Putin meets mothers of killed soldiers

Update from Sunday, November 27, 6:20 a.m.:

President Vladimir Putin met with the mothers of soldiers who were killed and who are currently fighting.

The reason is that on Sunday (November 27) Mother's Day is celebrated in Russia.

The men had died a hero's death, he said, according to Spiegel.

Losses for Russia: foreign policy admits problems

+++ 9:32 p.m .:

The Russian foreign politician Leonid Slutsky has admitted problems with the Russian military.

At a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma in St. Petersburg, Slutsky addressed deficiencies in health care.

news reported about it

.

“There are not enough doctors in the military units;

everyone says so. I can't say they don't exist at all.

But you can hardly see them there," the foreign politician is quoted as saying.

In the past, the poor equipment of the Russian army was also criticized by its own soldiers.

Slutsky, an advocate of Russia's course in Ukraine, promised to discuss the problems with the Defense Ministry.

"We have to be aware that the whole world is watching us." If things like socks or doctors are missing, this leads to questions that are difficult to answer, Sluzki said.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Moscow under pressure – population increasingly dissatisfied

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Prisoners of war were exchanged between Russia and Ukraine for the third time within a week.

As the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, announced on his Telegram channel, it was possible to free “twelve of our people”.

The Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed the exchange of 12 prisoners with Russian citizenship.

According to information from Kyiv, the Ukrainians are nine soldiers and three civilians who were reported missing.

The "Russians" are said to be residents of the "Donetsk People's Republic" in eastern Ukraine.

The American

explains Moscow's willingness to exchange prisoners with the increasing dissatisfaction of its own population with the Russian mobilization.

Large parts of the population fear for their relatives.

Losses to Russia in Ukraine war: Ukraine scores heavy hits, destroys "important objects"

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The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reports new successes in the south of the country.

According to his evening report on

the armed forces are said to have succeeded in using artillery to score several heavy hits, including in the Russian-occupied Crimea.

When shelling a checkpoint in the town of Dschankoy in the north of the peninsula, a total of nine "important objects" are said to have been hit.

According to the Ukrainian general staff, these are primarily weapons and military equipment of the Russian army.

The base hit is said to have only recently been set up by the Russian occupiers.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: BBC collects information about killed Russians

+++ 2:25 p.m .:

According to the

, it has managed to confirm information about the death of 326 mobilized Russians.

Overall, the names of more than 9,300 Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine are known from open sources.

Since the first day of the war, the

's Russian-language service , together with the media company

- which is considered a "foreign spy medium" in Russia - and a team of volunteers have kept a list of Russian losses in Ukraine.

As of November 25, information on 9,311 soldiers and officers killed can be confirmed.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: arsenal of long-range missiles almost exhausted

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According to British secret services, Russia is using outdated launchers in Ukraine that are actually designed for nuclear warheads.

According to a report by the British Ministry of Defense, debris from an allegedly shot down missile type that dates back to the 1980s and was developed as a nuclear delivery system can be seen on publicly available recordings.

The launchers would now be launched unarmed, without the warheads.

Although these missiles could still cause damage, Moscow is unlikely to achieve any serious success with them, the British government said.

Rather, the Kremlin hopes to distract the Ukrainian air defenses.

London took this as a sign of how exhausted Russia's arsenal of long-range missiles is.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Kyiv reports the current figures

Update from Saturday, November 26, 8:40 a.m.:

The Ukrainian General Staff has updated the data on Russia's losses.

According to this, 86,710 Russian soldiers have died in combat since the beginning of the Ukraine war.

The General Staff also provides additional data on aircraft, helicopters, tanks and other military equipment.

Russia's losses at a glance:

Soldiers: 

86,710 (+560 on the previous day)

Aircraft:

 278 (+0)

Helicopters:

 261 (+0)

Tanks:

 2901 (+2)

Armored fighting vehicles:

5848 (+4)

Artillery systems:

1896 (+1)

Air defense systems:

 209 (+0)

Multiple Rocket Launcher:

 395 (+0)

Cars and other vehicles:

 4406 (+2)

Ships:

 16 (+0)

Unmanned Combat Drones:

 1554 (+1)

(Status: Saturday, November 26)

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.

Losses for Russia: Whistleblower accuses superiors of behaving "like in a circus".

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Russian soldiers are increasingly turning to media critical of Russia to report on the conditions at the front.

It also comes up again and again how Russia should keep silent about the majority of its dead.

, a platform founded by activists associated with the Kremlin-critical group Pussy Riot, has now

published a report by a Russian soldier from the 155th Brigade.

He reports how around 450 to 500 soldiers from his unit have died in the vicinity of the small Ukrainian village of Pavlivka in the Donetsk region in the past few weeks.

About the same number were injured.

Some of the unit's soldiers then asked the superiors to change tactics, after which the command initially threatened legal action.

Then the soldiers were promised awards to calm them down.

"Our commanders are acting like they're in a circus," the anonymous soldier accuses his superiors and reports that although some of his comrades were withdrawn from Pavliwka, those who complained were asked to hold their positions.

The whistleblower accuses his superiors of seeing more value in possible awards than in the lives of their soldiers.

"Probably the only way to stay alive," writes the soldier, is to desert.

Russia's losses in the Ukraine war: several reservists fell after partial mobilization

Update from Friday, November 25, 2:45 p.m .:

The losses in the Ukraine war are causing Russia major problems (see initial report).

The partial mobilization in September should remedy the situation.

According to estimates by British secret services, however, a large number of the conscripted reservists have already fallen.

In the Donetsk region, around the city of Bakhmut, among other things, a large number of mobilized reservists were killed, according to the short report by the British Ministry of Defence. 

The same applies to soldiers who had to dig trench systems in the Luhansk region while under heavy artillery fire.

The Kremlin must be concerned that an increasing number of families of reservists are prepared to protest against the conditions in which their relatives are serving and, if necessary, to be arrested.

Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war very high

First report from Friday, November 25th:

Moscow/Kiev - Russia has had to accept heavy losses in the Ukraine war so far.

How high the losses of the Russian army are actually, is unclear.

The Kremlin itself is largely silent.

Most recently, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave official figures in September.

"Russia's losses amount to 5937," he said at the time.

However, a second wave of mobilization planned by Vladimir Putin suggests that the losses are considerably higher and can only be compensated for with new recruits.

The statements of a former officer of a Russian special unit and an active FSB officer of the Russian secret service, which the Russian investigative

, also make it clear how many problems the Russian armed forces have to struggle with in the Ukraine war.

According to them, the number of casualties at that time was almost 90,000.

This included fallen soldiers, but also missing and wounded soldiers who are unable to return to military service.

As early as April, the Readovka news

, which is close to the Kremlin , accidentally published figures on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war.

At that time there was talk of 13,414 fallen soldiers and around 7,000 missing.

For comparison: In the ten-year war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, the then Soviet Union lost 14,523 dead.

Later information spoke of 26,000 fallen soldiers.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian general staff publishes the number of Russian casualties every day.

According to statistics from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, more than 86,000 soldiers have died in combat in the nine months of the Ukraine war.

(cs/cas/aa/mse/ska with dpa/AFP)