Ukraine keeps inflicting heavy casualties on Russian forces. Kiev publishes Russia’s current casualty statistics. The news ticker.
- UK estimates: Apparently, almost the entire Russian army is in Ukraine.
- Russian offensive: Experts speak of poor morale among the troops
- Russian losses: The Ukrainian Armed Forces report current data
- Read the latest developments here Ukraine conflict in the news ticker. The information processed Ukraine war come partly from the warring parties Russia and the Ukraine. They can therefore not be independently checked in part.
+++ 7.42 p.m.: Putin’s ally and leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has criticized the Russian generals’ publication of military casualties. On the Messenger platform Telegram Kadyrov, who became known as Putin’s “bloodhound” in the course of the Ukraine war, wrote: “Losses are inevitable when carrying out combat missions.” The special operation, as the Kremlin calls the attack on Ukraine, is no exception in this regard.
He does not understand why the Russian generals in the oblasts particularly hard hit by the war “trumpet everything down to the smallest detail,” Kadyrov continued. In his opinion, there was no need to publicly mention one’s own losses. This leads to “manipulation”, he writes in his Telegram post.
Russian losses in Ukraine war: 60 Russian soldiers killed in Donetsk offensive
+++ 5.43 p.m: In an attempt to break through the defense line in the region around Donetsk, the Russian armed forces suffered heavy losses. This is reported by the Ukrainian news platform Ukrainska Pravda with reference to the Ukrainian Border Guard Service.
According to this, officials from the state border protection service had stopped “several waves of attacks with mortars, grenade launchers and handguns”. 60 Russian soldiers are said to have been killed. There is no independent confirmation from the Russian authorities.
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: Almost half of all Russian tanks have already been destroyed
+++ 4.10 p.m.: The Russian army is estimated to have lost around 40 percent of its pre-war tank fleet after nine months of fighting in Ukraine. This is according to a count by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). For some of the most important tanks used in the fighting, it was even 50 percent.
Moscow is therefore forced to fall back on its “still considerable holdings” from the Cold War era. The number of Ukrainian tanks, on the other hand, is likely to increase significantly due to the tanks captured and the announced tank deliveries from the West.
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: Almost the entire Russian army in action
+++ 1.30 p.m.: Ukraine is already developing a plan to “liberate” the areas in the east of the country that Russia has conquered. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. “It takes time. We’re talking about several months here,” says Resnikov. But the preparations are already underway.
+++ 12.10 p.m.: British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said it is estimated that almost the entire Russian army is in Ukraine. Wallace spoke on a broadcast about Moscow’s offensive strategy BBC Radio 4, Russia has not been able to create a force capable of “penetrating” Ukraine’s defenses. Rather, “we saw only one attempt to advance.”
“It cost the Russian army a heavy price. We estimate that 97% of the entire Russian army is stationed in Ukraine,” Wallace said.
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: Morale of the troops “in the basement”
+++ 11.00 a.m.: According to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the Ukrainian government is planning a counter-offensive against Russian forces within a few weeks. “They are considering an offensive in the spring, and that’s only a few weeks away,” Austin told reporters in Brussels after a meeting of Ukraine’s Defense Contact Group. Allies will help Ukraine in this, he added.
The news coincides with Russia’s efforts to launch an offensive in Ukraine – with mixed results. Russian forces have carried out attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine in recent days and are continuing their attacks in Donbass, US officials said on Tuesday (February 14). The North Atlantic Treaty Organization warned this week that Russia had already begun some spring offensives.
However, there are signs that Russia has not learned lessons from the course of the war so far and, according to Western experts and intelligence officials, is still ill-prepared for the upcoming battle. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters Tuesday that Russian morale is low due to poor planning and leadership, which continues to cause them massive casualties.
Russian losses in the Ukraine war: The Ukrainian armed forces report new data
First report from Wednesday, February 15: Kyiv/Moscow – Reliable figures on how many soldiers Russia fought in its war against the Ukraine loses are hard to get from the Kremlin. Ukrainian Armed Forces publish preliminary estimates of Russian combat losses as of February 15:
- Soldiers: 139,770 (+690)
- Tank: 3290 (+4)
- Armored Fighting Vehicles: 6507 (+7)
- planes: 298 (+0)
- Helicopter: 286 (+0)
- Anti-Aircraft Systems: 236 (+2)
- Multiple Rocket Launcher: 466 (+0)
- Vehicles and fuel tanks: 5161 (+6)
- Ships: 18 (+0)
- drones: 2011 (+0)
- Source: Ukrainian Armed Forces estimates as of February 15
The information provided by the Ukrainian side cannot be independently verified. (editorial with agencies)
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