Russia apparently continues to suffer heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
According to the General Staff, Ukraine is repelling attacks.
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Losses for Russia at a glance
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Update from Friday, February 24, 7.45 a.m .:
The Ukrainian general staff has published current figures on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war.
According to this, another 1,000 Russian soldiers are said to have fallen within a day.
In addition, the Ukrainian military destroyed 13 Russian army tanks.
The numbers at a glance:
Soldiers:
146,820 (+970)
Aircraft:
299
Helicopters:
287
Tanks:
3363 (+13)
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
6600 (+7)
Artillery systems:
2363 (+11)
Anti-aircraft systems:
247 (+3)
Multiple Rocket Launchers:
474 (+3)
Vehicles and fuel tanks:
5224 (+9)
ships:
18
Drones:
2033 (+4)
Source: Ukrainian General Staff as of February 24
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Russian tanks in Ukraine.
(symbol photo)
© Ukrainian Armed Forces / picture alliance / dpa
Losses for Russia: Ukrainian Air Force flies attacks on Russian positions
+++ 9:20 p.m .:
According to current information from the Ukrainian General Staff, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 14 attacks on Russian positions and military equipment and four attacks on positions of anti-aircraft missile systems during the day.
The Ukrainian missile and artillery units hit three crew quarters and another important military installation of the occupiers.
The nature of this facility is not specified in the report of the Ukrainian General Staff.
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In order to determine the position of Ukrainian forces and adjust artillery fire, the Russian army conducts aerial reconnaissance using drones.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine were able to destroy Russian Merlin and Zala drones today, the General Staff reports.
The Russian offensives on the Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk fronts were also unsuccessful.
Heavy losses for Russia: Ambulances transport wounded soldiers away
+++ 7.30 p.m .:
According to the evening report of the Ukrainian military general staff, the Russian armed forces are suffering further losses.
According to this, six ambulances were seen in Russian-occupied Donetsk the night before, transporting wounded soldiers of the Russian occupying forces.
They were taken to a trauma center.
The fiercest fighting is currently taking place in the Donetsk region, particularly near the town of Bakhmut, the report said.
According to this, on day 365 of the war, the Russian troops tried to advance to the Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk fronts, but they did not succeed.
Losses for Russia in the Ukraine War: Changed tactics in Bachmut and Wuhledar
+++ 2.30 p.m .:
Due to the high losses, Russia has apparently had to change its tactics in the contested cities of Bachmut and Wuhledar in the past few days.
Speaking to
Forbes
magazine, the director of Ukraine's military intelligence service, Kyrylo Budanov, said that Russia had shifted from artillery to infantry attacks.
This is due to the lack of shells and armored vehicles.
According to Budanov, the Russian armed forces have lost 30 percent of the total number of artillery shells and are now rationing their supplies.
Heavy losses for Russia: fighter plane crashes in Belgorod
+++ 11.20 a.m .:
A Russian fighter plane crashed in an uninhabited area on Thursday in the border area with Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow.
The crash site is therefore in the Belgorod region.
The pilot died, the ministry said, according to the Russian state news agency
Interfax
.
The fighter jet was therefore returning from a mission.
According to the first findings, there is a technical reason for the crash, it said in Moscow.
Russia also flies combat missions in the war zone in Ukraine from the region.
Defender of the Fatherland Day was celebrated in Russia on Thursday, during which President Vladimir Putin also highlighted the deployment of troops in Ukraine.
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov had previously announced in Belgorod after the crash that the situation there was under control.
Heavy losses for Russia: Wagner boss speaks of "high treason"
Update from Thursday, February 23, 10:30 a.m.:
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the private paramilitary Wagner group, accuses top Russian military of "treason" and claims that his troops were deprived of ammunition.
Prigozhin made these claims in a voice message on his Telegram channel,
Reuters
reports.
He said this was "nothing more than just spitting on Wagner.
That can be equated with high treason."
The private military contractor's mercenaries have been working alongside Russian soldiers in the battle for Bakhmut for months.
Russia sees the recapture of the city as fundamental to the success of its "special military operation".
(editorial with agencies)
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