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Russia records heavy losses in the Ukraine war. The Ukrainian General Staff calls new figures: the news ticker.
- More than five months after the invasion of the Ukraine the Russian forces fight with heavy losses.
- Russia draws up plans to make up for the losses in Ukraine war to compensate.
- Editor’s note: The information in Ukraine conflict partly come from warring factions and cannot be checked directly and independently.
+++ 6.30 p.m.: According to the Ukrainian military, it has destroyed a Russian military base in the occupied region of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region. The Strategic Communications Department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that according to preliminary information, between 10 and 15 Russian soldiers may have been killed and others wounded in the attack on the base in southern Ukraine. It is unclear when the attack took place.
+++ 3.30 p.m.: The Ukrainian regional governor in the east of the country claims that up to 100 Russian soldiers may have died in an explosion in the recently occupied city of Lysychansk. Serhiy Gaidai, head of Ukraine’s Luhansk district, admitted in an interview Radio Liberty gave few details about the blast and tongue-in-cheek that Russian troops had launched an offensive from an oil refinery, and that “some careless smoking” could have caused the deadly blast.
Update from Wednesday, August 17, 11:45 a.m.: According to consistent reports, Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to hold the occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian “South Command”, more than ten depots in or near the port city have been destroyed in the past week.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian general staff has updated the statistics on Russia’s losses – the data at a glance:
- Soldiers: 44,100
- planes: 233
- Helicopter: 196
- Tank: 1886
- Armored Fighting Vehicles: 4162
- Artillery Systems: 993
- Air defense systems: 136
- Multiple Rocket Launcher Systems: 263
- Cars and other vehicles: 3054
- Ships: 15
- Unmanned Combat Drones: 792
- As of Wednesday 17 August 2022
- The information on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war comes from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. They cannot be independently verified. The Kremlin itself gives very little information about its own losses.
Ukraine War News: Explosion at Russian Air Force Base
+++ 2 p.m.: There were apparently explosions again on the Crimean peninsula. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports black clouds of smoke in the sky over a Russian air base. A report by Guardians according to the base is near the city of Simferopol. The information cannot be independently verified.
The Ukraine War in Pictures – Destruction, Resistance and Hope
The Ukraine War in Pictures – Destruction, Resistance and Hope
+++ 10 p.m.: The Ukrainian army has now confirmed an attack on a base of the Russian mercenary group Wagner in eastern Ukraine (see update from 7 p.m.). The base of the Wagner group was destroyed in the process, said the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajday.
+++ 7 p.m.: The Ukrainian military has reportedly attacked a Russian military base with Himar rocket launchers. According to Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske, Russian Telegram channels have shared photos of the aftermath of an attack on a base in Popasna, in the eastern Luhansk region. The photos show the recovery of injured or dead soldiers from the rubble and the destruction of the building. The official number of injured and dead has not been confirmed. The base is said to be a base for the Wagner paramilitary group, which is fighting for Russia in Ukraine.
News about the Ukraine war: Heavy losses – Russia allegedly kills 100 “mercenaries”
+++ 2.45 p.m.: According to the Russian military, 100 “foreign mercenaries” have been killed in the Kharkiv region in the past 24 hours. In addition, 50 others were injured, said Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. This does not correspond to statements made by the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov: he spoke of Russian rocket attacks on civilian buildings and industrial sites. He gave no information about possible victims. None of the above information is independently verifiable,
First report from Monday, August 15, 11:45 a.m.: The Ukrainian Air Force has apparently shot down a military helicopter belonging to the Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk region. According to the General Staff, it was a “Ka-42” helicopter, also known as the “Alligator”. Recently, reports have accumulated that Ukraine has shot down such helicopters. This information cannot be independently verified. (mse/tu/sne/cs/nak with dpa/AFP)
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