Russia records heavy losses in the Ukraine war. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports the destruction of ammunition depots: the situation in the news ticker.
- More than five months following 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.
+++ 1.15 p.m.: The head of the military administration deployed by Russia in the occupied southern Ukrainian region of Cherson, Volodymyr Saldo, is in an artificial coma in an intensive care unit in Moscow with symptoms of poisoning. “Today he was flown from Crimea to Moscow in an artificial coma on a special plane,” reported the Russian Telegram channel Baza on Saturday. His condition is considered critical, poisoning is mentioned as a possible cause.
The 66-year-old Saldo was born in Ukraine and was already politically active before the Russian invasion. He was mayor of Cherson from 2002 to 2012, following which he sat in parliament for ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s party until 2014. In 2015 he lost the election for mayor of Kherson. Shortly following the occupation of large parts of southern Ukraine, Saldo was then installed by the Russians as head of the military administration in Kherson.
Heavy casualties for Russia: Ukrainian forces destroy ammunition dumps
Update from Saturday, August 06, 06:35: The Ukrainian military is destroying six Russian ammunition depots in southern Ukraine, The Kyiv Independent reports.
Accordingly, the task force “South” according to its own statements killed 79 Russian soldiers and destroyed four tanks, two howitzers, an artillery installation, a radar station and 22 armored and military vehicles. Ukrainian forces also reportedly hit two Russian checkpoints and a command post.
Ukraine-News: Russian occupiers put to flight
+++ 8.33 p.m.: According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces drove the Russian occupiers to flee during an attack in the direction of Maryinka. In the city, regarding 30 kilometers from Donetsk, Russia tried to advance and was put to flight, the reports General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukraine has also successfully repelled three other attacks, the report said. These were in the direction of the villages of Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka and Pisky. It is not yet clear what losses Russia or Ukraine suffered as a result. The information might not be independently verified.
Ukraine-News: He is said to have provided information to Russia – spy arrested
Update from Friday, August 5, 5:50 p.m.: The Ukraine war rages on unabated. Ukraine’s secret service announces another loss for Russia. According to the report, a suspected spy was caught and arrested.
The detainee is said to be none other than the “former deputy head of the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine”. He is suspected of having passed secret information to Russia. During the search of his current workplace in the “State Space Agency of Ukraine” he is said to have tried to open fire on the officers.
The major general who is in custody now also has to answer on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons and attempted murder. According to the SBU secret service, the investigation is ongoing. The information has not yet been independently verified.
Losses to Russia: Ukraine destroyed Russian ammunition depots
First report from Friday, August 5th: Kyiv/Moscow – According to a Facebook report by an operational Ukrainian military command, Ukrainian forces have destroyed three Russian army ammunition depots: one each in Kherson, Prydniprovske and Tokarivka in southern Ukraine. However, this information might not be independently verified.
- Soldiers: 41.650
- planes: 223
- Helicopter: 192
- Panzer: 1792
- Armored Fighting Vehicles: 4032
- Artilleriesysteme: 950
- Air defense systems: 123
- Multiple Rocket Launcher Systems: 260
- Cars and other vehicles: 2964
- Ships: 15
- Unmanned Combat Drones: 742
- As of Friday 5 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 regarding its own losses.
In addition, 41,650 Russian soldiers are said to have fallen in the Ukraine war. This emerges from the daily updated statistics, which include the news portal Ukrainska Pravda published. (luc)
