The greatest losses in manpower were recorded in the Kupyansk and Krasnolimansk directions, follows from TASS calculations based on data from daily briefings by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor KonashenkovOver the past week, the Russian armed forces have destroyed about 2.5 thousand Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries.
This follows from TASS calculations based on data from daily briefings by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov.
The greatest losses in equipment were recorded in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and Andreevsky directions, and losses in manpower - in Kupyansk and Krasnolimansk.
TASS collected key statistics on the special operation from October 10 to October 16.
Strikes on Kiev's critical infrastructure
The Ministry of Defense reported four times this week on the massive strikes on the objects of the military administration and energy of Ukraine: October 10, 11, 16 and 17. As the ministry reported on October 10, the strikes were carried out by "high-precision long-range weapons", on the 11th and 17th - "high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons", on the 16th - "high-precision long-range air-based weapons".
In all these cases, the targets of the strikes were achieved, and all designated objects were hit.
Casualties in manpower
In the Kupyansk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost about 510 servicemen, in the Krasnolimansk direction - about 420. During the fighting in the Mykolaiv-Krivoy Rog and Andreyevsky directions, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 1 thousand personnel of the Ukrainian army and mercenaries from the Foreign Legion formation in a week.
About 300 more APU people were lost in Zaporizhia, about 90 - in Vremyevsky and more than 50 - in the Lysychansk direction.
In addition, the headquarters of the nationalist formation "Right Sector", the communications center of the Azov group (both organizations are banned in the Russian Federation) and two temporary locations of foreign mercenaries, as well as the repair base of weapons and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were hit near Zaporozhye.
Losses in technology
The APU lost the most equipment in a week in the Mykolaiv-Krivoy Rog and Andreyevsky directions. These are more than 20 tanks, more than 100 armored combat vehicles (BBM) and about 70 units of vehicles, including armored vehicles, pickups and special purpose vehicles.
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy's losses amounted to 9 tanks, 26 BBMs (including 7 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and 3 Turkish Kirpi armored personnel carriers) and 27 units of automotive equipment (including 10 pickups and 4 armored vehicles). In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot, a river crossing, a supply of ammunition and materiel, as well as three American M777 howitzers.
23 armored personnel carriers (including 10 IFVs), 2 tanks, 35 vehicles (including 21 pickups), 6 armored and 8 conventional vehicles were destroyed in the Krasnolimansk direction.
2 tanks, 6 BBMs and 3 pickups were lost in the Vremyevsky tactical direction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 7 tanks, 10 BBMs (including 7 IFVs), 1 armored car, 5 speedboats and 2 barges were lost in Zaporozhye.
In addition, Russian troops destroyed two field artillery guns, four Zoo artillery reconnaissance radar stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one American-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery warfare station.
In just a week of the special operation, according to TASS calculations, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed about 250 tanks and other armored vehicles, several MLRS, about 20 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as more than 140 units of special military vehicles.
The work of aviation, air defense and artillery
As a result of strikes carried out by aircraft and helicopters of tactical and army aviation, as well as missile and artillery units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, two helicopters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Mi-24 and Mi-8, one MiG-29 fighter, two Su-24 bombers of the Ukrainian Air Force were destroyed. The AFU also lost the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, the Smerch MLRS battery, a battery of American M777 howitzers and 28 ammunition depots and rocket and artillery weapons, including one with rockets to the American multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) HIMARS.
High-precision weapons strikes in the Lviv region destroyed the arsenal where weapons, equipment and ammunition supplied by the West were delivered and stored.
The Russian air defense system shot down 68 drones in a week, including 3 Switchblade-type barrage ammunition manufactured by the United States, 104 shells of the American HIMARS MLRS and the Ukrainian Alder, 20 HARM anti-radar missiles. In addition, air defense units destroyed one Ukrainian Su-27 fighter and one Su-25 attack aircraft.
