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Bad news for Vladimir Putin in the war in Ukraine: Russian army is said to be withdrawing in some places. Message bar.
- In the Ukrainian War, * the Russian army * seems to be withdrawing in places in the Battle of Kyiv *.
- Soldiers of Russian President Vladimir Putin * are clearly unable to secure supply routes to the front in Ukraine *.
- It is said that the morale of the Russian army in the Ukrainian conflict * is low.
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+++ 12.30: According to its own statements, the Ukrainian military recaptured several areas in the Kharkiv region. Oleh Syniehubov, head of Kharkiv regional administration, said in a statement in Telegram: “We are not only defending our positions, but also liberating our temporarily occupied country. Several settlements have been liberated and fighting for our territory towards Rohan is ongoing. There are also fighting towards Izium and Chuhuiv. ‘ CNN reports this – and points out that Syniehubow’s statements cannot be independently verified.
A fire burns from a pipe ruptured by Russian shelling on Friday, March 25 in Kharkov, Ukraine. © Daniel Carde / ZUMA Press Wire / dpa
Sections of the far-right Azov regiment, also fighting in Kharkiv, stated that “yesterday” [Anm. d. Red.: Freitag] was a “very productive day”.
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+++ 11.30: The curfew has been re-imposed in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. This was announced by the mayor of Vitali Klitschko. The new ban will apply from 8:00 p.m. on Saturday evening to 8:00 a.m. on Monday. Klitschko did not provide further details.
News from Ukraine: The British Defense Ministry expects Russian air strikes to intensify
+++ 09.00: The UK Defense Ministry believes Russia will continue to use “heavy firepower” in urban areas of Ukraine. This is due to the last situation report on Saturday morning. “Russian forces are reluctant to engage in large-scale infantry operations in cities, preferring to rely on the indiscriminate use of air and artillery fire to demoralize the defense forces,” cites the CNN report. The British Ministry of Defense announced that the cities of Mariupol, Kharkiv and Chernihiv are currently under siege by the Russian army.
Russia claims it uses Kinzhal missiles in the war in Ukraine. There are serious doubts about this. Meanwhile, the British Ministry of Defense assumes that the Russian army relies more and more on air strikes. © Pavel Golovkin / AP / dpa
+++ 08.15: At least 136 children have died since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was reported by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office in Telegram. Apart from the information, there is hardly any comparable information. You cannot check the data yourself.
+++ 7.30 am: Russia reportedly sends troops from Georgia to Ukraine. A US Department of Defense official explained in background discussions that this was currently being watched: “We’re seeing the movement.” It was not clear how many forces were involved. Russian troops have been stationed in Georgia since 2008. The recent movements of Russian troops may be a response to the recent territorial losses around Kiev and Kherson. It is also not known exactly where the armed forces will be stationed.
+++ 06.45: WHO reports that more than 70 attacks on hospitals and clinics have taken place in Ukraine. The most recent example is the Russian missile attack on the hospital in Izyum. The building was almost destroyed, as evidenced by the photographs.
+++ 06:00: According to a Ukrainian official, the Ukrainian army is planning a “counterattack” around Kiev. This is reported by CNN with respect to an anonymous source. Already on Friday it was announced that the Ukrainian army had managed to recapture numerous areas around the capital.
Saturday March 26, 2022 update at 10:00 AM 5:00: Russia apparently launched raids on the Ukrainian Air Force command center in Vinnitsa (western Ukraine) late Friday evening. Several rockets struck, reports Luftwaffe command. “Considerable damage” has been caused. This is confirmed by the photos, nothing is known about the number of victims. Rescue work is currently underway. This information cannot be independently verified. Meanwhile, reports are emerging that Ukraine may have placed many spies in the Russian military.
+++ 22:45: According to American information, the Ukrainian army has launched an offensive to recapture the city of Kherson. “The Ukrainians are trying to regain Kherson and we would say that Kherson is now a contested territory again,” a representative of the US Department of Defense told reporters in Washington. “We cannot confirm exactly who controls Kherson, but the city does not seem to be under Russian control as clearly as before,” it wrote. The port city, located near the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, was the first large city in Ukraine to be captured by the Russian army.
News from Ukraine: Russia is rumored to be losing the port city of Kherson
+++ 21:06: Russia may have lost full control of the Ukrainian port city of Kherson. The New York Times reports and quotes a representative of the US Pentagon. Kherson was the first major city to be captured by the troops of Russian President Putin. However, Ukrainian officials and residents expressed doubts about the Pentagon’s report. Consequently, the city is still in Russian hands, while the Ukrainian army is fighting in the region.
+++ 18:23: According to the Ukrainian army, a Russian lieutenant general was killed in the fighting in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not commented on this yet. This is reported by the American broadcaster CNN. So far, it is believed that six Russian generals and the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet have been killed since the launch of the Russian attack on Ukraine. This information cannot be independently verified.
+++ 15.45: As expected, the numbers of Russian losses in the war in Ukraine vary widely. While the Ukrainian military leadership reports 16,100 Russian soldiers killed (see 12.45am update), the updated numbers from Russia look a bit different. According to the Russian General Staff, 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed in Ukraine. According to the military agency Interfax in Moscow, 3,825 soldiers were injured in a “special operation”. It was the first official figure since the beginning of March, when the figure of 498 killed soldiers was reported. None of this information can be independently verified. Experts assume thousands of killed Russian soldiers.
+++ 14.25: The Russian army faces increasing difficulties in the fifth week of the Ukrainian war. The number of losses seems abnormally high (see 12.30am update). In addition, according to US information, Russia seems to be complaining about huge problems with precisely guided missiles. High-tech weapons fail up to 60 percent of the time, US government officials said, citing intelligence from the Reuters news agency.
News from Ukraine: Russia is suffering heavy losses
+++ 12.30: The Ukrainian military leadership has updated its figures for losses in Russia. According to this, 16,100 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. According to Ukrainian data, Russia has so far suffered the following losses in military equipment: 561 tanks, 1,625 armored vehicles, 1,089 cars, 291 artillery guns, 90 multiple rocket launchers, 49 surface-to-air missiles, at least 115 jets, 125 helicopters, 5 boats, 72 fuel tanks and 53 drones.
British secret services also talk about huge losses. “Russian forces almost certainly suffered thousands of casualties during the invasion of Ukraine,” reads the situation report. In order to compensate for “serious losses”, Russia is increasingly trying to use reservists, conscripts and mercenaries from private and foreign military companies.
Ukraine News: Why Russia Lost So Many Tanks in the War in Ukraine
+++ 11.15: The losses of the Russian army in the Ukrainian war are surprisingly high. According to the Business Insider news portal, about 10% of Russian military equipment has been destroyed so far. But why is that so? Undoubtedly, the first thing to mention here are the supply and sourcing problems that the Russian army has been struggling with since the beginning of the campaign (see first report). Tanks in particular tend to be poorly maintained for the most part. Without infantry and air support, they are more or less vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks.
In addition to modern anti-tank missiles, drones in particular play a decisive role here. Turkish drones like the Bayraktar TB2 can either attack tanks directly or serve as artillery scouts. “Actually, we can see that the Ukrainian military uses drones […] with significant effect against Russian armored vehicles, “said US military expert Paul Scharre to Business Insider. “Drones can be very effective in the airspace in dispute, partly because they can fly lower and partly because you don’t risk the pilot.”
News from Ukraine: Russian warships probably destroyed
Update from Friday 03/25/2022 at 9:00 am: The losses on the Russian side increase in the Ukrainian war. The Ukrainian General Staff informed that the “Saratov” landing craft was destroyed in the attack on the port of the city of Berdyansk, occupied by Russian troops. Apparently, two other ships of this type, “Cezar Kunikow” and “Nowoczerkask”, were damaged. The Ukrainian Navy announced yesterday that it had destroyed the aircraft carrier “Orsk”. However, this information could not be independently verified.
Fierce fighting also continued on land. An early morning video from the port showed a large Russian warship burning. Other ships have moved away from Hell. Further Russian losses will still be “cleared up,” he said.
News from Ukraine: Russian troops withdraw with heavy losses
The first report from Friday, March 25, 2022 at 6.45 amAccording to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, some of the Russian troops withdrew from Northeast Ukraine after heavy losses. This was announced by the Ukrainian General Staff in its situation report on Friday evening (March 25, 2022). As a result, some Russian units have withdrawn to the Russian border after the loss of more than half of their personnel.
According to Ukrainian reports, Ukrainian forces were also attacked in the Dnipropetrovsk region on Friday evening. Russia has carried out two missile attacks on a military unit on the outskirts of the city of Dnieper, local authorities in the region informed on Facebook. The unit’s buildings were “significantly” damaged and two fires broke out. Initially, there were no further details such as the victims. The information is not independently verified.
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