Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
Above all, the battle for Bakhmut cost the lives of many soldiers.
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at a glance: Almost 160,000 Russian soldiers are said to be in the Ukraine war
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Here you can read current developments from the Ukraine conflict.
The processed information on the losses of the armies involved comes partly from the warring parties in Russia and Ukraine.
They can therefore not be independently checked in part.
Update from March 13, 1:20 p.m .:
Despite significant losses, Russia is continuing its attacks in the direction of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marijinka and Shakhtarsk.
As reported by the Ukrainian general staff, the Ukrainian army had to fend off a total of 102 attacks in these places.
The Ukrainian rocket and artillery units hit and destroyed a Russian command post, two weapons depots and a fuel and lubricants depot.
Update from March 13, 11:35 a.m .:
The losses in the battle for Bachmut make it difficult for the Wagner group.
According to British estimates, the
Russian mercenary troops had problems due to a lack of new prisoners as recruits.
The Ministry of Defense in London pointed out on Monday that the Kremlin had denied Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin the opportunity to recruit mercenaries in prisons.
Half of the prisoners used fell victim to the heavy fighting.
A nationwide recruiting campaign is not making up for the losses.
"If the ban continues, Prigozhin will likely be forced to reduce the scope or intensity of Wagner operations in Ukraine."
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Apparently, Prigozhin can no longer recruit prisoners for his Wagner group.
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Ukraine War: Heavy Losses for Russia in Numbers
Update from March 13, 10:05 a.m .:
The Ukrainian General Staff has published new figures on the losses of the Russian armed forces.
According to this, the Russian army is said to have lost almost 160,000 soldiers since the beginning of the Ukraine war.
Above all, the battle for Bachmut drives the numbers up.
"In fierce battles, our defenders inflict significant casualties on the enemy," announced the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Olexandr Syrskyi.
Soldiers:
159,800 (+710)
Aircraft:
304
Helicopters:
289
Tanks:
3474 (+8)
Armored fighting vehicles:
6774 (+5)
Artillery Systems:
2503 (+16)
Anti-aircraft systems:
259
Multiple Rocket Launchers:
493
Vehicles and fuel tanks:
5354 (+6)
ships:
18
Drones:
2109 (+1)
Source: Ukrainian General Staff March 13
Ukraine War: Losses to Russia – Wagner mercenaries sent to Bakhmut to die
Update from March 13, 7:45 a.m.:
In the fighting around Bachmut, an immense number of Wagner mercenaries die (see also update from 5:45 a.m.).
According to the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), this could be related to the conflict between Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Accordingly, ministry officials use the opportunity to deliberately deploy Wagner soldiers there "to weaken Prigozhin and to thwart his ambitions for greater influence in the Kremlin".
War in Ukraine: 1,100 Russian soldiers killed in Bakhmut
Update from March 13, 5:45 a.m .:
Russia's losses on the Bakhmut front continue to rise.
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced in his video address, more than 1,100 Russian soldiers were killed and almost 1,500 wounded there in less than a week.
In addition, according to Selensky, "more than ten Russian ammunition depots were burned down".
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Ukraine War: Heavy losses for Russia - Successful attacks on Russian command post
Update from March 12, 8:15 p.m .:
According to the latest information from the evening general staff report of the Ukrainian armed forces, the units of the Ukrainian missile troops and artillery carried out successful attacks on a Russian command post, two squads of Russian soldiers and one of their ammunition depots this Sunday.
The Ukrainian air force also hit an enemy anti-aircraft missile system and carried out six attacks on Russian armed forces squads and their equipment.
"Our rocket and artillery units hit a command post, two groups of enemy manpower and equipment, and an ammunition dump," the Ukrainian general staff said in the evening.
In the afternoon, explosions could be heard in the area of the occupied city of Mariupol.
Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, reported via Telegram that the detonations came from "the direction of the village of Sartana".
The occupiers then sent their planes "into the sky".
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: elites are largely spared the conflict
Update March 12, 9:35 a.m .:
The effects of the heavy losses that the Russian army is still suffering vary greatly in the individual regions of Russia, according to the British Ministry of Defense in its latest intelligence report.
In relation to their population, the wealthiest cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg have remained relatively unscathed - this is particularly true for the families of Russia's elite.
In many eastern regions, the death rate relative to population is likely more than 30 times that of Moscow, it said.
In some regions, ethnic minorities are most affected: in Astrakhan, the Kazakh and Tatar minorities account for around 75 percent of the victims.
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: Wagner group to recruit mentally ill people
Update from March 12, 6:24 a.m .:
The paramilitary Wagner group is said to have suffered very high losses in the battle for Bachmut.
According to various media reports, chief Yevgeny Prigozhin actually sacrificed his soldiers in order to make progress.
Because of the high casualties, Prigozhin is said to have started recruiting mentally ill people to be used at the front in the war against Ukraine.
Ukraine War: Russia faces heavy casualties if captured by Bakhmut
Update from March 11, 10:35 p.m .:
In a new video appeal, Russian reservists in the war zone in eastern Ukraine have complained about grievances in the troops and called Vladimir Putin for help.
"We know that we are not the only ones who make such a request," said a hooded spokesman in the video message recorded on Saturday and distributed on the Telegram news channel.
Putin should not take care of the situation on paper, but on the ground, he demands.
Putin has not yet visited the troops in the combat zone.
The Russian spokesman complained of a lack of equipment and a lack of leadership by the commanders.
Russia suffers heavy casualties at the Battle of Bakhmut
Update from March 11, 9:00 p.m.:
The battle for Bachmut is associated with high losses on both sides.
Recently, a Ukrainian soldier complained in a post on the internet broadcaster Hromadske that the Ukrainian losses were immense.
The commander of the Ukrainian land forces, Olexander Syrskyj, then justified the continued defense with strategic reasons.
In the battle for Bakhmut, the Russian mercenary troop Wagner lost its most combat-capable units.
Now the Ukrainian colonel Serhii Cherevatyi has given figures on national television.
Accordingly, 221 Russian soldiers are said to have been killed and 314 wounded during the day.
"On that day, enemy groups in the Bakhmut sector of the front fired 157 times with various types of artillery ... 53 battles took place, 16 times Bakhmut was shelled alone, 23 battles took place in the area of the city itself."
Update from March 11, 6:35 p.m .:
Fighters from a special unit of Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service (SBU) have again destroyed a Russian main battle tank using an FPV drone.
The General Staff posted the video footage of the action on Facebook.
According to Ukrainian data, Russia has lost more than 3,400 tanks in the Ukraine war so far.
In addition, around 158,000 Russian soldiers are said to have died in combat.
(see update from 7.20 a.m.).
Update from March 11, 3:39 p.m .:
According to their boss Yevgeny Prigoshin, the Russian mercenary group Wagner needs 10,000 tons of ammunition per month for the battle for the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
In a video released on Saturday, Prigozhin emphatically demanded the delivery of artillery shells and cartridges.
Russia faces heavy losses if they capture Bakhmut
Update March 11, 1:24 p.m.:
Russia has made progress on Bakhmuts, a key target of Moscow's months-long campaign in eastern Ukraine.
However, this led to high losses.
According to Great Britain, the Kremlin would have to reckon with further heavy losses in the event of a conquest.
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: Attacks on Bakhmut repulsed for the time being
Update from March 10, 7:20 p.m .:
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces have initially repelled Russia’s attacks on the city of Bakhmut.
Russian troops were also repulsed in the nearby village of Ivankivske.
In addition, enemy positions along the front line were fired upon with their own artillery.
This was announced by the army general staff in a message on Facebook.
Prigozhin concerned: Russia with supply problems in the Ukraine war
Update from March 10, 6:12 p.m.:
The high losses and the lack of supplies for the Russian army in the Ukraine war also concern Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The head of the mercenary group "Wagner" said in a statement on Telegram: "I'm not only worried about the ammunition and the hunger for cartridges for the private military company Wagner, but for all departments of the Russian army."
Update from March 10, 5:12 p.m .:
Both Great Britain and France want to support Ukraine by training their soldiers in the fight against Russia.
This was announced by the heads of government of both countries, Rishi Sunak and Emannuel Macron, at a joint press conference.
"We have already agreed to train Ukrainian marines to give Ukraine a decisive advantage on the battlefield and win the war," Sunak said during a meeting in Paris.
Hardly any missiles left: Russia suffers heavy losses in the Ukraine war
First report from March 10th:
Kiev – Russia is said to have already used around 20 of its hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal type in the Ukraine war.
This is based on statements by Yuri Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force.
"According to information from our intelligence services, they have just over 50 such missiles in total," Ihnat said on Ukrainian television.
The air defense also managed to shoot down at least six such hypersonic missiles during the course of the war.
"So you don't have many left," the spokesman concluded.
On the night of Friday (March 10), Russia launched another large-scale missile attack on Ukraine.
Western observers see this primarily as Moscow's desperate attempt to compensate for its own high losses in the trench warfare surrounding Bakhmut.
Russia's losses: Moscow is running out of missiles in the Ukraine war
The Russian Defense Ministry, on the other hand, described the missile attack as a "massive retaliatory strike" and as a reaction to the Bryansk incident.
In the Russian city, partisans had carried out attacks on Russian military installations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the incidents as "terrorist attacks".
A total of 81 rockets are said to have been fired at Ukraine that night alone.
34 of them were shot down by their own air defenses, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
There is no question that Russia has to accept significantly higher losses in the Ukraine war than initially calculated.
But no one can say with certainty how high these losses really are.
Moscow itself does not disclose any figures.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, more than 628,000 Russian soldiers have already been eliminated in the Ukraine war.
156,000 soldiers were killed, 470,000 wounded and more than a thousand are said to be in Ukrainian captivity.
That would correspond to around 70 percent of the Russian armed forces as a whole.
The Western secret services and NATO do not assess Russia's losses in the Ukraine war as dramatically.
But thousands of dead Russian soldiers are also believed to have died in the West.
The British secret service reports up to 60,000 fallen soldiers.
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