One Day in Ukraine War: Russia Suffers Over 1000 Casualties among Soldiers

Losses for Russia: Ukrainian general staff reports figures

Update from March 16, 10:28 am: The Ukrainian general staff regularly publishes figures on Russian losses in the Ukraine war on Facebook. This information cannot be independently verified. The figures refer to the period since the beginning of the war.

From the latest update it can be read that in 24 hours more than 1000 other Russian soldiers are said to have lost their lives in the fighting. The following list is a selection of the Ukrainian data; in brackets is the increase within a day of combat. The original Facebook post can be found here.

• Members of the Russian Army: 162.560 (+ 1040)
• Panzer: 3504 (+12)
• Armored Fighting Vehicles: 6810 (+11)
• planes: 305 (+1)
• Artilleriesysteme: 2539 (+11)
• Source: Ukrainian General Staff March 16

Russia with heavy losses: Ukrainian fighter jets attack Russian command posts

Update from March 15, 7:55 p.m.: According to the General Staff in Kiev, Ukrainian planes made eight aerial attacks during the day on Russian military concentration areas. A command post, three troop and equipment assembly areas, two radar stations, an electronic warfare station and an air defense system position were shelled.

Update from March 15, 1:20 p.m.: Ukrainian soldiers allegedly shot down a Russian Su-24 fighter jet near the town of Bakhmut. A Video should prove the incident.

Update from March 15, 11:00 a.m.: Russia continues to fight heavy losses in the Ukraine war. For this reason, according to Ukrainian information, Moscow is apparently planning to mobilize around 500 people in occupied Horlivka in the Donetsk Oblast who had previously been declared unfit for military service. The occupiers received orders to launch another wave of mobilization in the city to replenish the ranks of units “that had been temporarily withdrawn from the combat zone due to loss of combat capability,” the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook with.

Russia with heavy losses: numbers at a glance

Update from March 15, 07:45: The Ukrainian General Staff has released new data on Russian losses in the Ukraine war. According to this, almost 1,000 Russian soldiers are said to have fallen again within 24 hours. In addition, Ukraine claims to have destroyed eight tanks belonging to the Russian armed forces. The numbers were given by the general staff via Facebook known.

• Soldiers: 161.520 (+980)
• planes: 304
• Helicopter: 289
• Panzer: 3.492 (+8)
• Armored Fighting Vehicles: 6.799 (+10)
• Artilleriesysteme: 2.528 (+9)
• Anti-Aircraft Systems: 262 (+2)
• Multiple Rocket Launcher: 502 (+7)
• Vehicles and fuel tanks: 5.377 (+10)
• Ships: 18
• drones: 2.132 (+12)
• Source: Ukrainian General Staff March 15

Daily losses of Russia in the Ukraine war: Russian officer’s diary discovered

Update from March 14, 5:14 p.m.: The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has on twitter Excerpts from the diary of a Russian officer in the Wuhledar region published. On the pages he had recorded the daily losses of his troops at the beginning of March.

According to the records, on March 1, 100 Russian soldiers carried out an attack. However, only 16 of these returned. A similar picture emerged in the days that followed. On March 3, 23 of 116 soldiers returned. On March 4, 15 out of 103 and on March 5 only three out of 115 soldiers sent out.

However, the authenticity of the diary cannot currently be independently verified. In recent weeks, however, it has been reported that Russian troops have repeatedly been ambushed by Ukrainians near Wuhledar. The army is said to have suffered significant losses.

Losses for Russia: Soldiers use probably outdated projectiles

Update from March 14, 1:00 p.m.: According to British estimates, Russia uses outdated projectiles in the Ukraine war due to a lack of ammunition. The ammunition had previously been classified as unusable, the Ministry of Defense in London announced, citing intelligence findings.

The lack of artillery ammunition has probably meant that projectiles have to be “strictly rationed” on many front sections, according to London sources. “This was almost certainly a key reason why no Russian unit was able to launch a significant offensive recently.”

Heavy losses for Russia in the Ukraine war

First report from March 14th: Bachmut – Russia has to accept heavy losses in the Ukraine war. While the Kremlin itself has remained silent, publicly available data suggests that at least 16,774 Russian soldiers have been killed in action so far. This is evident from the figures provided by the Russian service of the BBC and the independent Russian media company Mediazona publish regularly (as of March 10).

Particularly striking in this data is the increase in casualties among the Wagner mercenary group, which has been engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian defenders in and around Bakhmut for several weeks. A total of 800 deaths were confirmed in the period from February 24th to March 10th. However, there were fewer casualties among voluntary mercenaries than among prisoners drafted by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Losses for Russia: Wagner mercenaries die in Bachmut

The Battle of Bakhmut will indeed cost Russia dearly. “The harder the fighting, the more artillery is working against us and the more tanks,” Prigozhin said on Sunday (March 12).

On the same day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave specific figures on Russian losses in his nightly video address: “In less than a week, starting on March 6, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers in the Bakhmut sector alone.” , Zelenskyy said. “This is an irreversible loss for Russia.” In addition, 1,500 Russian soldiers were so badly wounded that they could no longer be deployed.

It is difficult to say how high the number of Russian casualties really is. Kyiv figures are usually higher than Western estimates. However, the British Ministry of Defense reported on February 17 that Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries may have suffered as many as 200,000 casualties since the start of the Ukraine war. The ministry evaluated up to 60,000 soldiers in February.

Losses for Russia: Kremlin no longer gives numbers

The Russian Ministry of Defense last commented on its own losses in September 2022. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu then gave the number of 5,937 military personnel killed. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on March 14 more than 160,000 “liquidated Russian soldiers”. (cs)