Ukraine war: Russian soldiers "continue to die ingloriously"
Created: 2022-11-29 04:57
By: Sandra Kathe, Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Karolin Schäfer, Moritz Serif, Tim Vincent Dicke, Lucas Maier, Andreas Apetz, Christian Stör
Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
Ukraine was able to repel several attacks.
The news ticker.
In Kherson Oblast:
Russia's collaborators leave the nearest town.
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.
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Russia again suffers losses in the Ukraine war.
According to the General Staff, Ukrainian forces damaged a railway bridge near the settlement of Starobohdanivka (Zaporizhia region).
The bridge served as a strategically important transport route for the Russian military.
"Russian invaders continue to die ingloriously in Ukraine," the general staff said on Facebook.
In the Luhansk region, the Russian occupiers lost up to 70 percent of their soldiers.
A command post and military equipment were destroyed in the settlement of Babina in the Kherson region.
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Losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Armed forces panic Russian soldiers
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With a targeted action, the armed forces of Ukraine have panicked the Russian troops.
This was announced by the deputy of Kherson region Serhiy Khlan.
Several "Grad" multiple rocket launchers belonging to the Russian army were said to have been destroyed in the operation.
It is not yet clear whether or how many soldiers were wounded or killed in the attack.
The information has not yet been independently verified.
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near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukraine’s paratroopers have taken a position of Russian soldiers, as a video shows.
The parachutists of Ukraine did not share any information about the number of soldiers killed.
Ukraine War: Several “Grad” multiple rocket launchers destroyed by Ukraine's aimed strike.
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However, at least four dead soldiers from Russia can be seen in the video.
The information has not yet been independently verified.
Video: Ukraine throws explosive device with drone into Russian tank
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In the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian armed forces have repelled a total of ten attacks by pro-Russian troops, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.
In the Enerhodar region, the Russian troops are said to have suffered a defeat.
Artillery attacks on Saturday (November 26) reportedly wounded 30 Russian soldiers.
In addition, six attacks on military equipment of various kinds are said to have been successful, according to the General Staff.
In the past 24 hours artillery strikes are said to have hit four positions with military equipment and soldiers.
The information has not yet been independently verified.
Video: Ukraine throws explosive device with drone into Russian tank
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In southern Ukraine, soldiers destroyed a tank belonging to troops loyal to Putin.
Using a small drone, Ukrainian soldiers threw an explosive device directly into the open hatch of the armored rocket launcher, a video by Ukraine's border guard troops shows.
In total, since the beginning of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 5861 armored vehicles, not including artillery systems and main battle tanks.
(see update from 11.10 a.m.)
Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia loses 600 soldiers within 24 hours
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The General Staff of Ukraine has adjusted the figures for the loss of Russian troops.
According to this, 87,900 soldiers have fallen from Russia since Sunday (November 27).
The General Staff has also released current data on destroyed tanks, vehicles and other military equipment - an overview of Russia's losses:
Soldiers:
87,900 (+590 on the previous day)
Aircraft:
278
Helicopters:
261
Tanks:
2908 (+3)
Armored fighting vehicles:
5861 (+5)
Artillery Systems:
1899 (+2)
Air defense systems:
209
Multiple Rocket Launchers:
395
Cars and other vehicles:
4416 (+4)
Ships:
16
Unmanned Combat Drones:
1555
(Status: Monday, November 28)
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 in the Ukraine war: Russia's collaborators leave the next town
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The Russian attack on Ukraine has been going on for more than nine months.
Since the Ukraine war began on February 24, at least 9,311 Russian soldiers have lost their lives there.
That's according to an independent investigation conducted by
BBC Russia
and independent Russian news channel
MediaZone
.
The figures were already published on Friday (November 25) and only include the confirmed deaths, the
BBC
writes.
The number of unreported cases could well be twice as high.
If irreversible injuries and missing persons were added, it could be up to 100,000 soldiers, as the British broadcaster writes.
Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia's collaborators leave the next town
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According to their own statements, Ukraine’s rocket and artillery units hit four bases of Russian troops last day.
Enemy soldiers were killed and ammunition and military equipment destroyed.
This was announced by the Ukrainian General Staff on Facebook.
The Russian armed forces therefore concentrated on containing the actions of the Ukrainian soldiers.
Enemy personnel and military equipment are being relocated to compensate for heavy casualties.
"It is expected that individual units will be deployed from the territory of Belarus as soon as they gain combat capability," the report said.
Losses in the Ukraine war: Russia's collaborators leave the next town
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
Kyiv Independent
, 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”
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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.
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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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
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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
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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 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
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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.
The daily
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
Institute for the Study of the War
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
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According to the
BBC
, 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
BBC
's Russian-language service , together with the media company
Mediazona
- 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.
Mediazona
, 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
portal Istories published in October
, 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
portal
, 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)
