Since the start of the war, 40,070 Russian soldiers have lost their lives, the Ukrainian authorities claim on Wednesday morning. The figures have not been confirmed from any other source. Russian authorities have previously claimed that the loss figures are far lower.
A US intelligence source stated to Reuters a few days ago that Russia probably loses hundreds of soldiers every day. CIA Director William Burns estimated last week that the number of dead Russian soldiers was close to 15,000, and that another 45,000 were injured.
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Burns emphasized at the same time that the Ukrainians had also suffered significant losses, without quantifying this further.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainians further claim that they have destroyed, among other things, 1,738 Russian tanks, 222 combat aircraft, 3,971 armored vehicles and 190 helicopters.
The Russians have not published their own casualty figures or estimates for the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed for a long time, but on Tuesday the Russian Ministry of Defense published an overview on Telegram in which they claimed to have destroyed 260 Ukrainian aircraft, 144 helicopters, 1,613 drones, 358 air defense systems, 4,162 tanks and others armored vehicles, 3,201 artillery vehicles and 4,481 other military vehicles.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: The casualties of the occupying forces exceeded 40,000.
Enemy losses during the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation as of July 27, 2022#stoprussia pic.twitter.com/cAeaaLOs9Y
— National Police (@NPU_GOV_UA) July 27, 2022
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Hard battles
Fighting is still ongoing in parts of Ukraine. In the Kherson region, Ukrainian forces attacked a strategically important bridge last night, both Ukrainian and Russian media report.
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– Not yet confirmed: The Russian-controlled Antonivsky bridge at Kherson has reportedly been destroyed by the Ukrainian army, writes Ukrainian Kyiv Post.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Anton Herashchenko also mentions the attack in a statement on Wednesday morning and writes that the American Himars missile system was used.
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– Himars was responsible for a new, powerful strike against one of the two bridges over the Dnipro, a bridge used by the invading army for large force transfers. Let’s hope that the Antonivskyi bridge will not be able to withstand the force of the rocket attack, he writes, according to The Guardian.
The Russian news agency Tass on Wednesday quotes a local leader in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, as saying that the bridge is damaged and is completely closed to traffic.
The Ukrainian army, with the help of Western weapons, has slowly taken back territory in the Kherson area in the south in recent weeks. The bridges over the Dnipro are strategically important for the Russian forces, who need them to get supplies to the front.
Claims Russia shot down its own helicopter
ATTACK: It is supposed to be a helicopter of this type, the Ka-52 “Alligator”. Photo: Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / NTB
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The Ukrainian defense forces claim on the night of Wednesday Norwegian time that a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter must have been shot down by Russian forces. That’s what they write on Facebook.
The claims have not been verified and the Russians have not commented on the alleged incident.
The attack is said to have taken place near the small town of Olhine in the Kherson region at around 12 o’clock yesterday. Kherson is one of the regions where the heaviest fighting is now taking place.
According to the Ukrainian News Agency Ukrinform the helicopter is said to have mistaken a Ukrainian and Russian position, and accidentally attacked its own forces. Then an anti-aircraft missile is said to have shot down the helicopter.
Kamov Ka-52 “Alligator” are the Russians’ best attack helicopters, and cost approximately NOK 160 million each.
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