As of: January 31, 2024, 8:49 a.m
By: Daniel Dillmann
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The Russian army has to withdraw from the region around Bakhmut after heavy losses.
The news ticker for the Ukraine war.
Missile and drone attacks
: Ukraine's air defense reports numerous missiles fired from Russia
Russia
suffers heavy
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: Kiev publishes current 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 suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Kiev – Russia seems to be losing ground in the Ukraine war.
Ukrainian forces are said to have captured several defensive fortifications around the city of Bakhmut, which is occupied by Russian troops.
This emerges from satellite images of the front that were distributed by the Ukrainian army on Twitter.
Bakhmut was at the center of events in the Ukraine war last summer.
After weeks of fighting and suffering heavy losses, the units of the Wagner mercenary group succeeded in conquering the city for Russia.
Now the Kremlin troops appear to be on the defensive both in Bakhmut and north and south of the city.
Russia continues missile attacks on Ukraine
At the same time, Russia continues its shelling of Ukrainian cities in the war with Kiev.
According to Ukraine, four people were injured by drone and missile attacks.
However, the air defense was able to repel most of the attacks and thus prevent anything worse from happening.
In total, Russia fired on the country during the night with 20 drones and three Iskander-type ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
14 drones were shot down over the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia regions.
Ukraine also claims to have inflicted heavy losses on Russian troops on the ground.
According to the Defense Ministry in Kiev, more than 1,000 Russian soldiers are said to have died in the Ukraine war in the last 24 hours alone.
A Ukrainian soldier fires a howitzer at Russian positions near the city of Bakhmut.
© Efrem Lukatsky/dpa
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Russia's losses in the Ukraine war at a glance
People:
around 385,230 (+1090 on the previous day)
Tank:
6310 (+10)
Armored fighting vehicles:
11757 (+32)
Artillery systems
: 9195 (+51)
Air defense equipment
: 663
Aircraft:
332
Helicopters:
324
Drones
: 7100 (+16)
Cruise missile:
1846
Ships/Boats
: 23
Submarines:
1
Automotive equipment and tankers:
12231 (+40)
Special Equipment:
1448 (+5)
Source:
Ukrainian General Staff dated January 31st.
The information about Russian losses comes from the Ukrainian army.
They cannot be independently verified.
Russia itself does not provide any information about its own losses in the Ukraine war.
Zelenskyj with video message in the Ukraine war
Meanwhile, hopes are growing in Kiev that they will be able to inflict even greater losses on Russia in the coming weeks with the help of their own weapons production.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has described the growing production of drones and ammunition in his own country as a path to freedom.
“The domestic production of drones, artillery shells and military vehicles is literally the production of our freedom, the freedom of Ukrainians and Ukraine,” said the 46-year-old on Tuesday in his evening video message broadcast in Kiev.
This also involves the important production of longer-range drones.
Zelensky did not give any details.
(With agency material)