Heavy casualties for Russia - Drone videos allegedly show Ukraine's offensive
Created: 01/12/2022, 23:42
By: Helena Gries, Sandra Kathe, Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Karolin Schäfer, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel
Ukraine continues to inflict heavy casualties on Russia.
Moscow still has reserves to support the troops.
The news ticker.
Losses for Russia:
Moscow loses more soldiers
Attack on anti-aircraft systems:
Ukraine hits "important object"
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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Russian troops are suffering heavy losses around Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, as reported by
CNN
.
Videos of Ukrainian military drones would show attacks on Russian positions and bodies of Russian soldiers.
According to Ukrainian sources, 155mm howitzers and mortars will be used for the offensive.
Heavy fighting has been going on in the region between Ukrainian and Russian troops for months.
As
CNN
reported, the Russian soldiers had mobilized again, but less experienced units had been sent to the front.
There is heavy fighting around Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.
© Erik Prozes/imago
Losses for Russia: Russian soldiers withdraw from Zaporizhia
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Russian soldiers withdraw from several regions in the occupied part of the Zaporizhia region.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the soldiers are leaving the settlements of Mykhailivka and Inzhenerne, as well as the town of Polohy.
"According to the information available, Russian occupying forces are withdrawing some units and preparing to evacuate," the general staff said on Facebook.
In addition, more than 15 pieces of military equipment of various types and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
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Russia must continue to suffer losses in the Ukraine war.
Thus, Kyiv was able to destroy one tank and five armored fighting vehicles.
Despite losses, Russia still has reserves
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Despite all the losses in the Ukraine war, Russia apparently has numerous reserves in the north of occupied Crimea to strengthen its fighting troops.
"The town of Dzhankoy and the surrounding areas have become the largest military base in Crimea, from where the Russian occupying forces, weapons and military equipment of the Russian Armed Forces are transferred," Ukrainian Brigadier General Oleksii Hromov said during a briefing on Thursday.
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News about the Ukraine war: Russia's losses are piling up
+++ 11.30 a.m .:
The losses that Russia has to take in the Ukraine war are becoming more serious from week to week.
In the past two weeks alone, more than 6,000 Russian soldiers have died in combat.
According to Ukrainian estimates, the number of soldiers killed since the invasion began on February 24 is now more than 89,000 (see update from 8.45 a.m.).
The Russian army also suffered significant artillery and vehicle losses during this period.
From November 16 to November 30, Russia lost 43 tanks, 75 armored fighting vehicles and 69 cars and other vehicles.
News about the Ukraine war: Radio technicians save hundreds of thousands of lives
+++ 10.35 a.m .:
In the nine months of the Ukraine war, the radio technicians of the Ukraine Air Force discovered more than 240,000 enemy targets and, according to their own statements, saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
“In the nine months of the full-scale war, Luftwaffe radio engineering forces have detected more than 240,000 enemy air targets.
About 80 percent of them were destroyed with our firepower.
That's hundreds of thousands of lives saved, that's preserved infrastructure.
And this is an indicator of the high efficiency of our soldiers,” Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny wrote on Telegram.
The information cannot be independently verified.
News Ukraine war: Russia loses more soldiers
+++ 8.45 a.m .:
The Russian military lost another 560 soldiers on Wednesday (November 30).
This was reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Thursday morning (December 1).
(as of Thursday, December 1st)
Soldiers:
89,440 (+560 on the previous day)
Aircraft:
280
Helicopters:
261
Tanks:
2915 (+1)
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
5877 (+5)
Artillery Systems:
1904 (+2)
Air defense systems:
210
Multiple Rocket Launchers:
395
Cars and other vehicles:
4441 (+12)
Ships:
16
Unmanned combat drones:
1562
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.
Ukraine war: Ukraine attacks Russian anti-aircraft systems - and hits "important object"
Update from Thursday, December 1, 7 a.m.:
During the course of Wednesday (November 30), aircraft and missile units from the Ukrainian army carried out a total of 17 attacks on Russian soldiers, their weapons and military equipment.
This was announced by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Facebook.
Among other things, two Russian air defense systems and “an important object” were hit.
This information cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine war: heavy losses – Putin must probably mobilize again
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Only a few months after the first partial mobilization in Russia did the General Staff of Ukraine report Russia’s plans to recruit more soldiers.
According to Ukrainian information, recruits from military academies should also graduate early to fill gaps left by fallen Russian soldiers.
The Ukrainian secret service reports that further mobilization campaigns are to begin as early as January and February.
According to Russian information, 300,000 reservists were drafted for the war effort last fall by the end of October.
Just a few days after the announcement of the partial mobilization, reports emerged that recruits were being sent to the front with poor equipment and killed.
However, after the war began at the end of February, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin announced that he would only send professional soldiers to Ukraine.
Big problems for the Russian army: Hundreds of soldiers are in the hospital
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According to the Ukrainian General Staff, more than 700 injured Russian soldiers were taken to the hospitals in the occupied city of Donetsk last week.
This is reported by the Ukrainian news agency
Ukrinform
.
As the news portal
Ukrainska Pravda
writes, the Ukrainian military leadership also claims to have found out that Russian occupiers have rededicated a hospital in the city of Horlivka north of Donetsk as a military hospital.
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According to British information, the Russian army is struggling with major tactical problems.
"The relatively small allocation of infantry to the BTG has often proved insufficient," the British Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday (November 29).
The concept of tactical battalion groups has been part of Russian military tactics for years.
Each tactical unit is equipped with infantry, anti-aircraft, artillery, logistics and reconnaissance units.
The decentralized distribution of artillery has not enabled Russia to exploit its quantitative advantage with this important weapon, it was said in London.
Only a few commanders would be allowed to use the model flexibly.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia's losses are so high
+++ 11.15 a.m .:
Compared to the previous day, the Russian army had to mourn 480 dead soldiers.
This is reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Soldiers:
88,880 (+500 on the previous day)
Aircraft:
280 (+0)
Helicopters:
261
Tanks:
2914 (+3)
Armored fighting vehicles:
5872 (+6)
Artillery Systems:
19012(+1)
Air defense systems:
210 (+1)
Multiple Rocket Launchers:
395
Cars and other vehicles:
4429 (+6)
Ships:
16
Unmanned Combat Drones:
1562 (+7)
(as of Wednesday, November 30)
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.
+++ 9.40 a.m .:
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced in an update on its Facebook page that the country had taken over almost 9,000 Russian military vehicles and that its own military was determined to increase this number “every day”.
“As of November 29, 2022, Russia has lost more than 2,900 tanks and nearly 5,900 armored fighting vehicles since the end of February.
The Ukrainian military believes that this is not enough and the number of enemy casualties will increase every day until he gets out of Ukraine," Tuesday's update said.
“That 'works' our artillery, aviation, tanks and the infantry have a say!
Together we will win!”
+++ 8.30 a.m .:
The second major wave of mobilization in Russia for the Ukraine war is imminent.
The think tank “Institute for the Study of War” expects this with references to Russian media reports.
However, the "Russian military system is highly unprepared" for this.
It is already known from the first mobilization that the authorities were overwhelmed with the bureaucratic effort.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia is suffering from a shortage of weapons
Update from Wednesday, November 30, 6:35 a.m .:
Russia has repeatedly struggled with equipment shortages and difficulties in supplying the mobilized troops.
This emerges from a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Russia is suffering from a shortage of weapons and the Russian armed forces are being forced to use WWII-era artillery and cheap, inferior military equipment.
This is reported by the Kyiv Independent
news portal
with reference to the ISW.
"The structures of the Russian Armed Forces have not recovered from the last mobilization and the Russian military-industrial complex remains strained, so the infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces is unlikely to be able to absorb another wave of mobilization so quickly," the statement said ISW.
Russian losses in the Ukraine War: Wagner Group recruits prison inmates
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Russia's Wagner group is currently freeing men imprisoned in the Central African Republic for murder and rape, among other things, in order to use them as mercenaries in the Ukraine war.
This emerges from a report by
The Daily Beast
.
The Wagner group had previously used prisoners to fight the Ukrainian army.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, has visited Russian prisons several times in the past to recruit serious criminals for the war.
Since then, the Russian has been accused of recruiting men in prison camps to fight in Ukraine without a legal basis – due to a lack of personnel at the front.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian arms stockpile is coming to an end
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Ukraine has been preparing for a massive Russian attack from the air for days.
The reason for this is the relocation of warships in the Black Sea, which is causing concerns in Kyiv to grow.
“Terrorism is afoot.
Apparently the Russian fascists are preparing a new rocket attack.
But the Ukrainians are ready to repel another airstrike," said Yuri Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
According to the Ukrainian spokesman, Russian arms stocks are running low - so there is optimism.
"Is it even possible to scare us with anything else?
Also, there aren't that many long-range, high-precision missiles left to attack our rear areas with," Ihnat said.
Ukraine war news: Russia makes 'obvious preparation' for withdrawal
Update from Tuesday, November 29, 11:17 a.m .:
Russia continues to come under pressure in the Ukraine war.
Russian troops are now digging trenches in the east of the Cherson region in preparation for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
This is reported by the think tank Institute for the Study of War
(ISW)
, which specializes in defense issues .
Satellite images from the US company Maxar from November 15 show that Russian forces have been digging trench lines and so-called concentration zones in eastern Cherson since the beginning of October.
ISW
experts see
this as "obvious preparation" for a withdrawal from the west bank of the Dnieper.
Should that actually happen, the recently liberated city of Kherson would no longer be directly threatened by the occupying forces.
"Russian forces clearly do not expect to be able to prevent Ukrainian forces from crossing the river," the military experts said.
Therefore they did not set up any positions to prevent such an advance.
On the contrary, Russia is getting even more clearly on the defensive in the area around Cherson and is preparing for “a protracted defence”.
Ukraine war news: Ukraine kills 480 soldiers and shoots down fighter jets
First report from Tuesday, November 29:
Kiev – The Russian military can still not report any major gains in territory in the Ukraine war.
On the contrary: the loss of the strategically important port city of Cherson still weighs heavily.
Every day, more and more soldiers are dying in the service of Russia.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has now released the latest figures on Russian army losses.
Data shows that hundreds of soldiers continue to lose their lives in combat every day.
According to the ministry in Kyiv, 480 Russian fighters died within 24 hours.
In addition, three tanks, two artillery systems and two fighter jets were destroyed.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia's losses are so high
Meanwhile, according to British estimates, Russia has moved away from its basic military and tactical concept - the reason being the heavy defeats of the troops of Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin.
In the past three months, the Russian forces in Ukraine have largely stopped appearing as tactical battalion groups (BTG), the Ministry of Defense said in London, citing intelligence findings.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia is struggling with big problems
The high-intensity fighting over a wide area would have revealed several errors in the concept.
"The relatively small allocation of infantry to the BTG has often proved insufficient." In addition, the decentralized distribution of artillery did not allow Russia to exploit its quantitative advantage with this important weapon.
Only a few commanders have permission to use the model flexibly, it said in London.
The BTG concept is a central pillar of Russian military doctrine in recent years.
Each tactical unit is equipped with infantry, anti-aircraft, artillery, logistics and reconnaissance units.
(with agencies)