Last updated: 15.01.2024, 05:18 a.m.
By: Stefan Krieger
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Russia continues its attacks against Ukraine, but the losses are mounting. Kiev remains confident. The news ticker.
- Volodymyr Zelensky is confident: "We have the potential to win"
- Losses for Russia: Kiev announces new figures
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties Russia and Ukraine and their allies. In particular, the information on losses of the armies involved in the Ukraine war cannot be independently verified.
Kyiv – Russia repelled three Ukrainian missiles over Russia's Kursk region near the border with Ukraine on Monday night (15 January). Russian air defenses shot down the missiles, Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit said on Telegram. The information could not be independently verified. Initially, there was no information on injuries or damage. In Ukraine's defensive struggle against Russia, targets on Russian territory are repeatedly coming under fire.
Zelensky: Have the potential to win
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky once again expressed confidence in a victory against Russia in his evening video address. "Ukraine has the potential to overcome this difficult path of war," he said. "We have the potential to unite the world; we have the potential to win." The main thing is to believe in your own strength. "And to Ukraine."
Zelensky drew his confidence from new agreements and arms deliveries since the beginning of the year. "There are much-needed agreements on the joint production of weapons and ammunition, especially the sensitive issue of drones," he said. In addition, there is "good news" for air defense, which Zelensky did not elaborate on.
Kyiv announces new figures on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has announced new details about Russia's losses on Facebook. According to the report, about 370,000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed since the beginning of the Ukraine war, 840 of them within the past 24 hours. Since the beginning of the war of aggression, the Russian army is said to have suffered the following losses:
- Soldiers: 370,000 (+840 on the previous day)
- Tanks: 6075 (+10)
- Armored vehicles: 11,302 (+33)
- Artillery systems: 8747 (+19)
- Multiple Rocket Launchers: 957
- Air defense systems: 648
- Aircraft: 329
- Helicopters: 324
- Drones: 6861 (+13)
- Cruise missile: 1814 (+8)
- Warships: 23
- Submarines: 1
- Tankers and other vehicles: 11,667 (+35)
- Special equipment: 1353 (+8)
Source: Ukrainian General Staff of 13 January. The data on Russia's losses come from the Ukrainian army. They cannot be independently tested. Russia itself does not provide any information about its own losses in the Ukraine war.
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