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Soldiers are dying every day in the Ukraine war, on both sides. Statistics on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war are regularly updated.
- The battles and attacks in the Ukraine war are raging primarily in the east of the country. The military of Ukraine continues to resist.
- Russia itself rarely provides information about its own losses in the war.
+++ 10.30 p.m.: Fighting continued unabated in eastern Ukraine. In the Donetsk region, the pro-Russian separatists spoke of one dead and eleven injured, as the dpa reports. The reason for this is said to have been the shelling from the Ukrainian side. The information has not yet been independently verified.
+++ 6.30 p.m.: Ukraine’s intelligence service, through the Defense Ministry, has said Russia would burn soldiers to keep the actual death toll low. In the outskirts of the city of Cherson, according to information, corpses are repeatedly being burned on the streets.
Due to the high degree of burns, the bodies could usually no longer be identified, it is said. According to Ukrainian information, the representatives of the Russian occupying forces are trying to declare the bodies as victims of artillery fire. Ukrainian firefighters are forbidden to put out the said fires. The information has not yet been independently verified.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia’s losses at a glance
- Soldiers: 36,650
- Aircraft: 217
- Helicopters: 187
- Panzer: 1602
- Panzerkampfwagen: 3797
- Artilleriesysteme: 815
- Air defense systems: 107
- Multiple rocket launcher systems: 247
- Cars and other vehicles: 2665
- Ships: 15
- Unmanned Combat Drones: 667
- As of Thursday 7 July 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: Heavy casualties for Russia
+++ 11.30 a.m.: During the weekend, Russian troops reported taking the entire Luhansk region in the course of capturing the city of Lysychansk. As expected, the Kremlin said the oblast had been “liberated”. Another phase of the “special operation” has now been completed, said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. According to an analysis of ZDF the Russian forces had to accept heavy losses in the capture of Lysychansk. However, the data on this is poor. Only the Ukrainian army publishes regular statistics. According to this, around 36,500 soldiers of the Russian military have fallen in the war so far. In addition, there are probably around 110,000 wounded armed forces. The analysis assumes that the number of fallen soldiers is even higher. This is indicated by the material losses, for example more than 830 tanks have already been destroyed.
The separatist people’s republics are said to be particularly hard hit by the losses. According to the analysis, they are used in the front lines. The information cannot be independently verified.
Update from Thursday, July 7th, 7 a.m.: 38 Russian soldiers were killed in fighting in Ukraine on July 6. In addition, the military lost a T-62 tank, two 120mm “Sani” mortar complexes, two armored vehicles, four other vehicles, as well as three ammunition depots in the Mykolayiv region and a fuel and lubricants depot in Kherson. This was announced by Operations Command South, a formation of the Ukrainian ground forces, in a Facebook video.
Some of the soldiers were killed in an attack on Ukrainian units in Dobrianka, Cherson. After the troop had lost five soldiers and one was wounded, they withdrew, how UKrinform quoted from the video.
Ukraine-News: Russia’s military abandons wounded troops
+++ 11 p.m.: In the storming of the Luhansk region, Russia must have suffered heavy losses. The region is not yet completely under Russian control, said Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk region’s military administration CNN.
For more than four months, the Russian military has been trying to take over the region. According to Hayday, they suffered “enormous losses” in equipment and soldiers. The region’s hospitals are full of Russian soldiers. This information has not yet been independently verified.
+++ 7 p.m.: Russia launched an attack in Donbass and failed at the army of Ukraine. “Ukrainian militants inflicted significant casualties on the enemy during an attempted attack around the villages of Verkhnyokamkanka, Bilohorivka and Hryhorivka. The occupiers retreated,” the General Staff said in Kyiv on Wednesday (July 6).
The fighting took place about 15 kilometers from the Russian-held city of Lysychansk. In the Bakhmut area, the Ukraine also pushed back Russian troops and inflicted “casualties” on them, the dpa reported, citing a report by the general staff. So far, the information could not be independently verified.
+++ 2:37 p.m.: Russia suffered heavy casualties after capturing twin cities of Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk, the Luhansk region government announced. It is said that the military left many dead and injured troops to their fate. According to the renowned US think tank “Institute for the Study of War” (ISW), the combat capability of Russian troops is said to have suffered as a result of their ties to the region. This is said to have prevented the Russian army from advancing to other regions in Ukraine. In addition, the researchers assume in the analysis that the Russian offensive will stall in the coming weeks.
Update from Wednesday, July 6, 6:55 a.m.: According to Ukrainian media, 36,200 soldiers of the Russian army have been killed, 150 have been added compared to the last statistics. 18 other armored military vehicles were destroyed, bringing the total to 3,772. Five tanks were destroyed, the total number is 1,594, Ukraine officials say. Reports of the Ukrainian online newspaper Truth According to reports, Russian attacks in the east were successfully repelled by Ukrainian forces.
The Russian army also lost two more artillery systems, for a total of 806. There was another loss of special equipment, while the number of vehicles and fuel tanks rose by eleven to 2,629. The data shows a dated Kyiv Independent via Twitter published statistics.
Ukraine-News: Ukrainian military reports firing of Russian missiles
Update from Tuesday, July 5, 6:24 p.m.: The air defense of the Ukrainian military is said to have succeeded in shooting down several Russian missiles on Tuesday morning. This was reported by the responsible military leadership on Tuesday afternoon via social media. A video published on the subject shows defensive weapons intercepting several missiles. According to information from the Ukrainian military leadership, the Russian attacks are said to have been aimed at the nearby cities of Mykolaiv and Bashtanka in southern Ukraine.
First report from Tuesday, July 5, 12:48 p.m.: Kyiv/Moscow – The Ukrainian General Staff has updated statistics on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war. Accordingly, 36,350 soldiers have already fallen. In addition, 1594 tanks and 217 military aircraft have already been destroyed.
(tu/ska/hg/lm with dpa/AFP)