Ukraine General Staff: Russia lost 350 soldiers, 20 tanks in one day

Ukraine General Staff: Russia lost 350 soldiers, 20 tanks in one day
August 31, 2022, 7:00 pm

The Ghost of Kyiv, a collective image of pilots of the Air Force's 40th tactical aviation brigade, was portrayed by 3 artists who depicted him in a MiG-29 plane in full readiness to destroy Russian planes - Image by In Ukraine via Euromaidan Press

Russia has lost 350 soldiers and 20 tanks in just one day, according to a report from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Anews reported.

On the 189th day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the report shared on Facebook said that the occupier's total losses amount to 47,900 military personnel, 1,974 tanks, and 1,091 artillery systems.

350 soldiers and 20 tanks were among Russia's losses in one day, the report said.

Noting that Russian troops had suffered their heaviest losses on the Donetsk and Kurakhove fronts, the General Staff provided the estimated number of total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February and 31 August 2022.

Here are the loss numbers provided by the report:

* Approximately 47,900 (+350) military personnel

* 1,974 (+20) tanks

* 4,312 (+18) armoured combat vehicles

* 1,091 (+12) artillery systems

* 285 (+3) multiple-launch rocket systems

* 152 (+1) air defence systems

* 234 (+0) planes

* 204 (+0) helicopters

* 849 (+2) operational-tactical UAVs

* 196 (+0) cruise missiles

* 15 (+0) ships/boats

* 3,236 (+19) vehicles and fuel tankers

* 103 (+0) other vehicles and equipment

In a previous report, nearly two weeks ago, Russia's total losses were about 43.000 soldiers.

“If almost 43,000 dead Russian soldiers do not convince the Russian leadership that they need to find a way out of the war,” Zelenskyy said, “then more fighting is needed, more results are needed to convince.”

Ukraine’s Air Force has shared combat footage of a MiG-29 pilot shooting various types of missiles at Russian targets, including HARM (High-speed Anti-Radar Missile) - they v have yellow stripes. The Pentagon earlier said that these missiles were specially fitted for Ukrainian jets; this is the 1st video of them in action. The US confirmed on 8 August that HARM missiles were supplied to Ukraine. Ukraine has been using them to destroy Russian anti-aircraft and radar systems. 📽️ Ukraine's Air Force; created from combat footage by Ivan, a Ukrainian pilot who dedicates the video to his fallen comrade Yevhen Lysenko, who fell in an aerial battle with the Russian invaders on March 9.
Posted by Euromaidan Press on Tuesday, August 30, 2022

At the time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which provides a daily tally on social media, put the number of enemy “liquidated” at around 43,000 as of Aug. 11.

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The Russian government has not published its own losses since March 25, when it gave a total of 1,351 killed and 3,825 wounded.

According to Ukrainian media reports, the Ukrainian military bases its own estimates on a combination of reports from troops in the field, intercepts of Russian communications, open-source visual data and estimates based on the amount of equipment destroyed.

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