During the anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses in manpower and these losses are much greater than official Kiev announces.
Official losses during the armed conflict in Donbass, voiced by Ukraine over 1,800 people killed and 8,500 wounded, - said the head of the main personnel department of the Ukrainian General Staff, Lieutenant General Igor Voronchenko.
According to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered almost half of their irrecoverable losses outside the battlefield.
“To date, the losses of Ukrainian servicemen for the entire period of the ATO are 1,842 servicemen, 831 are not combat ones. 8,519 servicemen were wounded, ”a representative of the General Staff said.
Igor Voronenchenko said that during the entire time of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, about 100 thousand Ukrainian servicemen received the status of a participant in hostilities. In total, about 129,700 people are eligible for this status.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the People's Militia of the LPR Igor Yashchenko at a press conference in early November announced other real figures of the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the ATO. According to him, the real losses of the Ukrainian side are several times greater than the official Kiev announces.
Real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass:
from April 13, 2014 - to November 13, 2015 - 85,880 people (cargo 200, 300 and 500), losses of foreign intelligence services of PMCs, NATO are not included in these figures; of which: 74560 - (cargo 200 and cargo 300); 11320 - (load of 500, deserters or those who joined the militia).
So 37,200 (cargo 200) - military personnel and various paramilitary formations. Of these: 4,540 (cargo 200) - militants of the "Right Sector", who became part of the National Guard; 5,600 (cargo 200) - employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and soldiers of territorial battalions and actually employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; 3,225 (cargo 200) - other categories of armed formations (Ministry of Emergency Situations, Military Prosecutor's Office, medics, repairmen, escort brigades, engineering service and other military).
Further, 355 people (cargo 200) are employees of the Border Troops. 1,635 (cargo 200) - employees of the SBU. Alpha lost 500 (cargo 200), 400 people (cargo 300). Sumy "Alpha" was completely destroyed, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankovsk, Kiev, Poltava, Lvov, Rivne, Volynsk, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir and Kharkov "Alpha" - suffered serious losses. Omega Special Forces suffered serious losses.
21 815 (cargo 200) - servicemen of the regular Ukrainian army.
For your information: near Debaltseve, about 25% of the personnel (about 2,200 people) were NATO soldiers and foreign mercenaries.
1,690 (cargo of 200 and 300) mercenaries from 39 countries, including: American PMC Asademi - 270; and her "daughter" Greystone Limited PMCs - 180; Polish PMC ASBS Othago - 700; from Canada, Germany, Britain, Finland, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Italy, Spain, Croatia, France, Sweden, Turkey, Czech Republic, Arab countries and Africa.
255 (235 - cargo 200, 20 - cargo 300) - CIA, FBI, US Special Operations Forces, US Special Operations Forces, SAS - British Airborne Service, French Legion, Israeli intelligence Mossad, military intelligence"Aman" and services general security"Shabak", Shin-Bet counterintelligence and the IDF of the Israeli army.
The current situation in Donbass
The Ukrainian military continues to concentrate forces east of Artyomovsk, in the area of the station. Lugansk, preparing for the offensive, finally blocked the checkpoint and traffic from the DPR in the direction of Volnovakha. Columns BM-21 "Grad" walked in the morning towards Artemovsk. Artillery, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers (up to 30 units), as well as personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have already moved to the Gorlovka area.
10 tanks took up positions in the settlement. Dzerzhinsk, 5 km to the contact line. 12 tanks in the area of the settlement. Novgorodskoe, 6 km to the contact line. In n. Nikolaevka, installed MLRS BM-21 "Grad" in the amount of 5 units, 8 km from the contact line.
In the DPR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are probing the defense of Gorlovka, there is a threat of an offensive near Gorlovka - there is a high intensity of fire and the formation of assault battalions by security forces.
Strikes are being made on the territory of the Donetsk airport: mortars, artillery and howitzers, which, according to the Minsk agreements, must be withdrawn from the contact line. In addition, the militia positions in the area of Peski and Spartak were fired from mortars.
Attacks on the VSN positions are going along the front line around Donetsk: Staromikhaylovka, Maryinka, Aleksandrovka, Yasinovatsky checkpoint. Krasnogorovka-Staromikhaylovka: shooting combat (large-caliber machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, AGS). Nevelskoe-Staromikhaylovka - (mortars). Staromikhaylovka is being fired from tanks from Krasnogorovka.
From the side of Nevelskoye, the security forces are firing at the positions of the VSN from the MLRS.
Near the Donetsk airport, a fighter of the "Legion of Freedom" organized crime group, the 93rd OMBr, the chairman of the "Sokol" public organization, volunteer Yuriy Cherkashin "Chernota" was seriously wounded. As a result of shelling from the Ukrainian self-propelled guns "Akatsia" near Uglegorsk, two soldiers of the armed forces were killed.
In the LPR, the hottest spots are now the areas of Sokolniki, Zhelobok, Schastya, Popasnaya, st. Luhansk. Ukraine made three attempts to infiltrate the DRG. All three groups were scattered or destroyed. There is a high activity of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian military. One device was shot down.
The specifics of the official calculation of the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass makes it possible to rephrase the well-known proverb as follows: there is a lie, a big lie and statistics of the Maidan-oligarchic regime in Kiev. The latter initially tried not to advertise the real losses of his security forces since the beginning of hostilities in the Slavyansk region.
At the same time, representatives of the regime and the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically announce certain figures on the number of security officials who have died during the entire period of the so-called. anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in Donbass.
For example, according to the information announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the official losses as of November 20, 2015 are as follows: 2,673 servicemen died, of which 1,842 - during the performance of a combat mission, non-combat losses - 831 people (i.e., about a third of the total). According to the head of the Main Personnel Department General Staff Lieutenant General Igor Voronchenko, also for the entire time of "ATO" were wounded 8519 soldiers, and most of them - 5913 people were injured outside the fighting. According to information released by the Ministry of Defense in October, total amount combat and non-combat losses In 2014-2015, the Ukrainian army totaled 2,027 people, 597 of whom died outside of a combat mission.
A year before that, Petro Poroshenko officially recognized the death of 1,252 Ukrainian servicemen. At the same time, the Kiev authorities once again made it clear that losses in Donbass are not considered. Relatives of the missing participants of the so-called ATO was asked to report them themselves. To this end, a volunteer call center was created under the Poroshenko administration - "the first in the history of the Presidential Administration," according to the statement of the adviser to the President of Ukraine Olga Bogomolets. Since then, this structure seems to have more than a year is engaged not so much in counting as in concealing the real scale of the tragedy and the number of Ukrainians who died in battles against the population of Donbass for the interests of the Nazi-oligarchic regime.
Moreover, this is done so "clumsily" that the lies of the official Kiev are refuted even by Western structures. For example, UN experts came to the conclusion that official data on the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed and injured in the battles in Donbass are "inaccurate and contradictory." This is indicated in the report on the results of the work of the UN monitoring mission. “The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and the WHO believe that the data on the number of deaths of Ukrainian military, civilians and members of armed groups was underestimated throughout the entire period of the anti-terrorist operation,” the report says.
Data from operatives and hacked sources
Total losses in Ukrainian troops in southeastern Ukraine (Donbass, Lugansk, Kharkov, Odessa, etc.) from April 3, 2014 - to the present.
DESTROYED L / S of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service and the other
PERIOD OF PUNISHMENT ACTIONS southeast
total number of KILLED:
About 34,950 servicemen, including members of the military and paramilitary units of the Ukrainian security forces to date. (excluding foreign mercenaries. military personnel and advisers). Of them:
- about 5,783 militants of the "Right Sector", mainly included in the National Guard, as well as 30 mercenaries from the special battalions "Dnepr" and "Azov", "AIDAR" and other illegal armed groups in Uraina, according to operational data, the corpses were taken to Dnepropetrovsk and destroyed in a local crematorium, or were buried at the place of execution and are listed as missing,
- about 19,756 servicemen of the Ukrainian army (mainly from the 25 Dnepropetrovsk airborne brigade and the 95 airmobile Zhytomyr brigade, the 24th motorized brigade from the Lviv region, 79 airmobile brigades, 51 mechanized brigades, the 24th mechanized brigade from Yavoriv, the 72nd separate mechanized brigade from Belaya Tserkov, the Kremenchug brigade of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and other units of the Ukrainian army, mainly from places of deployment from Western Ukraine),
- about 5,993 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from among the so-called. "National Guard",
- about 381 employees of the SBU of Ukraine,
State Border Service of Ukraine -25 3 people,
FOREIGN MERCURIES AND ADVISORS
88 CIA officers, FBI, US Special Forces,
- foreign mercenaries - 1049 people from the Polish PMC "ASBS Othago" (139 people from April 22 to July 13, 14), the American PMC Asademi (until 2009 it was known as Blackwater) and its "daughter" Greystone Limited PMC (125 people with April 22 to July 13, 14), from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Lithuania, Estonia, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, Czech Republic, Finland, African and Arab and other countries.
From April 22 to July 13, 2014 alone, the total losses of foreigners in the Donbass amounted to 330 people. In particular, the Polish PMC ASBS Othago lost 139 people, the American PMC Asademi (until 2009 it was known as Blackwater) - 125 people.
55 908 people, incl. from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Guard, Terbatalions, battalions of the "Right Sector, State Border Service, and the police.
Captured, deserted or missing:
SBU employees - 524 people.
National Guard - 2015 people (total since July 2014)
Military personnel - 3562 people. (total since July 2014)
Foreign mercenaries - 549 people.
other categories - 1366 people.
DESTROYED EQUIPMENT OF UKRAINE
INCLUDING CAPTURED OR REMOVED
28 combat helicopters (Mi-24 and Mi-8, MI-17), as of 02.02.15
Mi-24: 6 destroyed irrevocably + 8 hit / damaged in the end = 14 pcs.
Mi-8: 7 destroyed irrevocably + 6 hit / damaged in the end = 13 pcs.
planes at 20.00. 3.02.15 g .:
Su-25: 19 destroyed irrevocably + 1 captured by LPR + 12 hit / damaged. As a result = 32 pcs. at 20.00 03.02.15
Su-27 - 1 unit 09/01/14 g.
Su-24: 2 destroyed irrevocably + 1 hit / damaged. Total = 3 pcs.
MiG-29: 2 units destroyed.
Destroyed AN-30 (reconnaissance) + 3, Il-76 (transport) + An-26 (transport).
UAV - 24 pcs. on 06.10.2015
cars (6 - Hammer, GAZ-66 - 11 units, URAL - 70 units, KAMAZ - 47 units, ZIL-131 - 4 units KrAZ - 1, KShM - 2 units), TOTAL 706 CARS as of 1.06 2015 G.
truck tractors (ATL, MTLB) - 80 units. on 06.06.15
tanks: T-64 and other types - 529 pcs. on 08/10/15
tanks BULAT - 2 pcs. at 10.00 on 26.12.2014 (captured)
tank Leopard - 1 unit. on 23.10.2014
BTR - 397 pcs. at 10.00 1.0 2015
BTR "BUTSEFAL" - 7 pcs. as of March 12, 2015
BTR-4E - 2 pcs. on 12/21/14
BMP-1, BMP-2 - 285 pcs. as of 10.08 2015
BMD - 52 pcs. at 19.00 on January 27, 2015
BRDM - 19 pcs.
MLRS BM 21 "Grad" - 104 pcs. as of 08/14/2015 (including captured)
MLRS "Smerch" (9K58 - 300 mm.) - 14 pcs. on 01/27/15
240-mm heavy self-propelled mortar "Tulip" - 9 pcs.
MLRS multiple launch rocket launchers (9P 140) "Hurricane" - 17 pcs.
152 mm ACS 2S3 "Akatsia" - 13 pcs.
SAU-152 "Elizabeth" - 1 pc.
SAU-2S9 "NONA" - 26 pcs.
ACS "Carnation" 2S1 and others - 54 pcs. as of 04.06 2015
ACS "MSTA S" - 9 pcs. on 08.01.2015
152-mm towed howitzers 2A65 "Msta-B" - 6 pcs.
ACS - "Peony" - 21 pcs. on 02/18/2015.
mortars 120 mm - 113 pcs. as of 1.06.2015
mortars of caliber 82 mm - 49 units.
howitzers D-30 - 99 pcs. as of 04.06 2015
anti-aircraft gun (ZU-23-2) - 23 pcs. at 11.00 01.02. 2015
installation ATGM "Konkurs" - 3 pcs. at 10.00 on July 17, 2014
anti-tank guns MT-12d (100 mmm) "Rapier" - 37 pcs.
military boats - 3 units.
self-propelled 152-mm gun "Hyacinth" -2 units.
Heavy weapons of foreign supply - 2 units
tactical missile Point - "U" - 3 pcs. on 08/20/2015
Warehouses of ammunition, weapons and fuels and lubricants - 18 objects.
REFERENCE:
The representative of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vladislav Brig, announced the exact number of weapons that the Militia got in the Debaltseve cauldron:
Tanks - 187 pcs;
BMP, BMD, BTR - 124;
ACS various - 68;
Barrel art - 52;
MLRS various - 24;
Various mortars - 278;
Freight vehicles - 139;
Service motor transport - 43;
Radars, communication vehicles - 46;
Shooters, b / c, dry rations, first aid kits and so on - nemeryan.
by 1 “Since the beginning of the resumption of active hostilities (within twenty-eight days), the enemy has lost 3 aircraft, 1 helicopter, 196 tanks, 170 infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and MTLB, 192 field artillery pieces, 117 vehicles and 2,649 people killed. 60 servicemen were taken prisoner, ”Basurin summed up.
12 thousand killed, 19 thousand wounded and almost 5 thousand missing. These are, if you believe the leak from the closed meeting of the National Security Service of Ukraine, the real losses of the Ukrainian security forces over the entire period of the punitive operation in the southeast. This information is partly confirmed by CyberBerkut hackers.
In total, there are about 13,900 deserters. This category raises the most questions: not only servicemen who went over to the side of Novorossiya, but also those who died, who for unknown reasons were not included in the list of losses, can get into it.
SBU: IN THE SOUTH-EAST OF UKRAINE 1,700 SILOVIKS LOST WITHOUT NEWS
The head of the Main Investigation Department of the SBU Vasily Vovk said that during the anti-terrorist operation in the Donbass, more than 1,700 security officials were missing. He noted that there is no information about the prisoners and it is impossible to determine their exact number. Vovk noted that about a hundred DNA examinations were carried out to establish the identity of the victims.
At the end of October 2014, the plenipotentiary of the President of Ukraine for resolving the situation in the southeast, Iryna Gerashchenko, said that the number of prisoners and missing persons reaches almost three thousand people. A week earlier, Advisor to the head of the SBU Markiyan Lubkivsky said that only 450 people are being held captive by the militia and almost 1,500 people had been released earlier.
The head of the DPR Committee on Prisoners of War Affairs Daria Morozova said that Kiev holds at least 400 militias in captivity. According to her, the number of missing militias has reached 680 people, RIA Novosti reports. For four months of fighting in Donbass, the troops of the junta, according to the headquarters of the DPR, lost 43 thousand people. Of these, 27,888 were killed or wounded, at least 13,500 deserted or went missing. The largest losses in battles were suffered by the "Right Sector" - over 7,000 killed and wounded. Most of them were part of the Ukrainian National Guard. The battalions "Dnepr", "Donbass", "Chernigov", "Aydar", "Azov", "Kherson" and others lost 6168 people killed and wounded. SBU - 115 people. 460 foreign mercenaries were killed and wounded. The most missing fighters were the Polish ASBS Othago (194 people) and the American Asademi (160). Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 14,889 servicemen. Killed 25 employees of the American special services - the FBI and the CIA. In four months, Kiev has lost 43 aircraft (among them the Polish and Croatian Su-25), 22 helicopters, six drones. The militia managed to destroy 448 tanks, 827 armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and BMDs, 37 Grads, 19 Hurricanes and about 100 pieces of artillery of various calibers, including 40 mortars, as well as several hundred vehicles, according to data from the DPR headquarters. "The total Ukrainian losses in the airport area and the surrounding area as of noon today: killed 597 Ukrainian security officials. I'm talking about those whose bodies have already been found in the area of the airport and the village of Peski. There were 44 people who surrendered, ”Basurin told reporters.
Most of them were part of the Ukrainian National Guard. The battalions "Dnepr", "Donbass", "Chernigov", "Aydar", "Azov", "Kherson" and others lost 6,168 people killed and wounded. SBU - 115 people. 460 foreign mercenaries were killed and wounded. The most missing fighters were the Polish ASBS Othago - 194 people and the American Asademi 160. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 14,889 servicemen.
Killed 25 employees of the American special services - the FBI and the CIA. In four months, Kiev has lost 43 aircraft (including the Polish and Croatian Su-25), 22 helicopters, and six drones. The militia managed to destroy 448 tanks, 827 armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and BMDs, 37 Grads, 19 Hurricanes and about 100 pieces of artillery of various calibers, including 40 mortars, as well as several hundred vehicles, according to data from the DPR headquarters.
APU LOSSES DURING THE 2015 WINTER CAMPAIGN
A total of 471 units were found and evacuated. various weapons, including serviceable and maintainable condition - 198 units, defective - 273 units.
Name of weapons and military equipment TOTAL properly defective
Total armored vehicles, including: 199 65 134
tanks 58 15 43
BMP 104 38 66
other armored vehicles 37 12 25
Total cars: 219 89 130
freight 180 76 104
special 28 9 19
MTLB 11 4 7
Total RAV, including: 53 44 9
9P148 BM ATGM "Competition" 3 3
2С1 SPG "Carnation" 14 9 5
BM-21 "Grad" 3 2 1
Anti-aircraft gun ZU23-2 6 4 2
100-mm anti-tank gun MT-12 "Rapier" 3 3
Self-propelled gun 2S9 "Nona" 1 1
82-mm mortar 2B9 "Vasilek" 2 2
120-mm mortar PM-38 2 2
120 mm howitzer D-30 6 6
152-mm towed howitzer 2A65 "MSTA-B" 13 13
CAPTURED TECHNOLOGY
In total, from June 20 to August 15, 2014, during the punitive operation, as follows from the reports of the military themselves, the militias seized from the Ukrainian army:
T-64 - 65 units, BMP - 69 units, APC - 39 units, BRDM - 2 units, BMD - 9 units, BM-21 Grad MLRS - 24 units, Uragan MLRS - 2 units, ACS 2S4 "Tulip" - 2 units, ACS 2S9 "Nona" - 6 units, ACS 2S1 "Carnation" - 25 units, D-30 - 10 units, 82-mm mortars - 32 units, ZU-23-2 - 18 units, cars - 124 units.
JOINT SUMMARY OF THE DNR AND LNR ARMY HEADS ABOUT THE LOSSES OF THE OPPONENT FOR A MONTH
The headquarters of the armies of the South-East and the Donetsk People's Republic summarized the losses of the junta forces for the period from August 1 to September 1, 2014.
During fierce battles on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the militia shot down fourteen aircraft, ten unmanned aerial vehicles of the Air Force of Ukraine, disabled up to one hundred and eighty seven multiple launch rocket systems and field artillery guns, up to two hundred and twenty tanks, over four hundred and eighty BMP and armored personnel carriers, up to seven hundred forty-nine vehicles.
As a result of artillery strikes, seventy-six warehouses and storage places for ammunition, fuel and different types material resources.
Up to three thousand six hundred punishers were killed and wounded.
AVIATION (ADDITIONAL), NOT INCLUDED IN LOSS (INFORMATION UNCONFIRMED):
May 2, 2014 - Two Mi-17s (Mi-8MTV) were shot down with foreign mercenaries on board. Presumably at the time of the landing at low altitude from an ATGM or RPG. (The most mysterious loss, as information leaked from foreign sites).
July 22, 2014 - Su-25 was shot down near Perevalsk. The pilot did not survive.
July 22, 2014 - Su-25 was hit (Zorinsk and Krasny Luch).
July 23, 2014 - Su-25 was shot down near the village. Pervomaisky.
July 30, 2014 - incomprehensible information about the plane shot down near Khartsyzsk.
4 August 2014 - a helicopter was shot down near Vasilyevka.
August 9, 2014 - Su-25 was shot down near Krasny Luch. The pilot was killed.
August 15, 2014 - a message from "Aydar" about a downed helicopter. Perhaps it was the downed Mi-8.
August 17, 2014 - Su-25 was shot down with MANPADS near Krasnodon.
CYBERBERKUT
From 8 to 15 August, the Army of the South-East captured: T-64 - 18 units, BMP - 24 units, armored personnel carriers - 11 units, BRDM - 2 units, BMD - 9 units, Uragan MLRS - 2 units, ACS 2S4 "Tulip" - 2 units, ACS 2S9 "Nona" - 2 units, ACS 2S1 "Carnation" - 10 units, 82-mm mortars - 6 units, ZU-23-2 - 3 units , cars - 44 units.
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In just one month of July, the punishers "presented" the militia with a significant amount of weapons: T-64 tanks - 25 units; infantry fighting vehicles (BMP) - 19 units; armored personnel carriers (armored personnel carriers) - 11 units; self-propelled artillery installations (SAU) 2S1 "Carnation" - 11 units; multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) BM-21 "Grad" - 12 units; howitzers D-30 - 5 units; mortars of 82 mm caliber - 16 units; anti-aircraft guns ZU-23-2 - 2 units; automobile tractors (AT) - 5 units.
For the period from July 21 to August 5, 2014, the punishers "presented" the militia with: tanks - 22 units; infantry fighting vehicles (BMP) - 26 units; armored personnel carriers (BTR) - 17 units; self-propelled artillery installations (ACS) 2S9 "NONA" - 4 units; ACS 2S1 "Carnation" - 4 units; multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) BM-21 "Grad" - 12 units; howitzers D-30 - 5 units; mortars of 82 mm caliber - 10 units; anti-aircraft guns ZU-23-2 - 13 units; automobile tractors (AT) - 75 units.
According to preliminary data, the LPR army managed to destroy at least 5 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored personnel carriers, a mortar battery, several "Urals" of the aggressor and about a hundred soldiers of the aggressor.
From 2 to 4 July 2014, the armed forces of the Lugansk People's Republic destroyed one Grad installation, a mortar battery, 2 armored personnel carriers, 4 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 howitzers and 3 aircraft of the aggressor.
On June 20, in Artemovsk, the DPR forces occupied the A-2730 military unit, which houses over 200 tanks, 183 infantry fighting vehicles and 288 armored personnel carriers.
Military expert Ruslan Taskaev, military officer, military journalist, combatant
They never lie so much as before the elections, after the hunt and during the war. Usually, the number of their wounded and killed is underestimated by at least five to ten times, and the number of enemy losses is overestimated by the same amount. To inform about losses, there is special instruction- to adhere to which they are obliged very strictly.
But the Ukrainian military is too zealous to carry out this instruction, underestimating their own losses in killed already 20 times, and wounded up to 50.
Real losses
The militias claim 1,500 killed Ukrainian military, National Guard militants, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine, members of radical paramilitaries such as the Right Sector, Kolomoisky's detachments, as well as mercenaries of foreign PMCs. The militias themselves suffered losses in the amount of about three hundred killed and the same number of wounded. The Ministry of Defense declares 45 of its killed and more than a thousand killed "terrorists". But even the official statistics, according to the military themselves, are underestimated, since it is not so easy to obtain the status of a victim in the ATO. The dead are not considered, which means that no compensation is paid, missing persons, deserters, corpses of persons (charred) whose identity cannot be officially established. For example, if a helicopter fell, an armored personnel carrier burned down, and there were several burnt corpses nearby without identification marks, none of them is considered dead in the ATO until tests are made and an identity is established, which cannot be quickly implemented in the current conditions.
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According to local residents in the Izyum area, the data of the militia is much closer to reality than the official statistics of the Ministry of Defense.
In a war, hospitals and hospitals are the most important places for collecting information on losses and movements of units. In Chuguev, Izium and other cities of the Kharkiv region, hospitals and morgues are full. In June 2-3 alone, at least 60 Ukrainian security officials died in the battles for Krasny Liman, and hundreds were wounded.
But the inhabitants of Izyum are not talking about hundreds, but already about thousands of wounded... In addition to hospitals in the Kharkiv region, the wounded are transported to sanatoriums in Central Ukraine, for example, in the Zhytomyr and Vinnitsa regions.
Even without engaging in battle, the Ukrainian army suffered losses - during the repair and preparation of equipment from explosions and fires, up to ten Ukrainian soldiers died, three tanks, the Grad installation and an ACS, one front-line bomber, An-2, BMD, Mi-8 were destroyed and others. Moreover, this data is only from open sources.
To date, according to the militia headquarters, only from equipment burned or knocked out: 3 Hummers, 1 UAZ-469;
from 4 to 10 Kamaz trucks; 8 trucks of unknown brand; - 2 trucks Ural; from 4 to 5 Gas-66; 1 radio station based on GAZ-66; 5 D-30 howitzers; 1 installation "Carnation", automatic mortar "Cornflower"; 3 units "Grad"; from 2 to 3 anti-aircraft guns; 3 mortars; from 1 to 2 self-propelled guns "Nona-S"; 4 T-64 tanks; from 40 to 60 armored vehicles (armored personnel carriers, BMD), including exactly 10 infantry fighting vehicles.
Among the aircraft, there are 15 to 20 shot down or completely disabled vehicles, including the Mi-24 assault helicopters, the Mi-8 military transport aircraft, the Su-25 attack aircraft, and a reconnaissance aircraft. In helicopters, this is almost a third of all battle-ready turntables in Ukraine.
These losses do not include equipment captured by the militia from the Ukrainian security forces, and these are BMP, BMD, self-propelled guns, IMR, armored personnel carriers, and now also means of electronic warfare and even heavy tanks.
On the reasons for the large losses of Ukrainian forces
The first reason is the nature of the so-called. anti-terrorist operation. It is carried out by different military groups, whose actions are often not elementary coordinated with each other. Nowhere in the official sources are the losses of the Alpha special unit mentioned, nevertheless, we reliably know about one case already typical for the ATO, which well illustrates the nature of the military operation and confirms the huge losses of the Ukrainian troops.
About a month ago, "Alpha" from one of the western regions of Ukraine moved on a combat mission, choosing the left flank, the right was taken by the National Guard under the cover of paratroopers. After a while, exposing the flanks, the National Guard and the paratroopers disappeared, and "Alpha" fell into a five-hour encirclement, from which it emerged with 30 wounded, among whom five were seriously wounded. And therefore, the reports of the militias that the Sumy "Alpha" was completely destroyed as a combat unit, and the special forces groups from the western and central regions suffered huge losses, are not fiction or overestimation, but just a statement of facts.
In any war, there are cases of shelling of their own troops. Donbass ATO is no exception. The whole world knows the footage of the shooting of the broken checkpoint near Volnovakha by Ukrainian helicopters.
In addition, employees of the 51st mechanized brigade fired at themselves several times, came under fire from the National Guard. Strelkov used experience until recently Chechen wars, namely, the deliberate provocation of mutual shelling. A month ago, such a successful operation on the part of the militia "got out" in the official reports of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. It was announced that the attack on the Ukrainian checkpoint was "successfully" repelled. A burned jeep was reported, as it turned out, it was a Hummer in service with the 95th Airborne Brigade. The shelling went on for several hours on our own.
The lack of coordination of actions and the unwillingness to fight among Ukrainian conscripts is a subjective reason for the large losses of the Ukrainian "siloviki", not counting the losses of the Makhnovist battalions of the Kolomoisky type "Donbass" (in the first battle it lost 50% of its personnel wounded), "Dnepr" 2 "and" Dnepr-3 ")," Azov ". But there are also objective reasons, namely: the attacking side always suffers greater losses than the defending side, especially in a city war with partisan and sabotage groups.
Where do the corpses go?
Ukraine is far from the best economic conditions... Many contract soldiers go to serve in the ATO only for the sake of the status of a participant in hostilities, which gives a whole range of benefits. All ATO participants were promised compensation for injuries and deaths. In terms of the number of wounded and killed, a tidy sum for the state runs up.
Therefore, the 200s, where there is an opportunity to hide, can be recorded as defectors and deserters. This step "kills" two birds with one stone - the family is not informed about the killed, but hope is given, therefore, the reason for indignation is removed, and the second - the state completely gets rid of payments for the death of a participant in hostilities. According to the militias, about 30 conscripts went over to the side of Donbass in Kramatorsk (by the way, there is no reverse process), but no more.
A clear instruction was given to maintain the status of a participant in hostilities, even for the wounded. The Ukrainian newspaper "Vesti" reports that in Odessa, the wounded are recorded as "participants in the accident", similar cases were noted in Zhitomir.
The radicals from the mercenary battalions, in particular, simply sprinkle their killed, where possible, with earth. Local residents testify to this practice (they even found a moving pit with the ground where wounded militants were dug in), and also confirmed by the declassified correspondence between Avakov and the commander of the Donbass battalion, who suffered numerous casualties in the first battle.
Near Slavyansk there are chalkpit- there were found, according to the testimony of local residents, submerged corpses. Probably, soon throughout the north of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, they will begin to excavate fresh "mass" graves, and to catch the dead from ponds and rivers.
What will happen when the truth comes out?
Knowing the real number of those killed and wounded in this war is the right of any citizen of Ukraine, since his fellow citizens from both sides are dying as a result of the military confrontation unleashed by the new government. It is a crime to hide this data.
The bitter truth about the killed and wounded will still find a way out. While it is being hidden by all means. But this phenomenon is temporary, and not even the saddest. The saddest and most criminal is the incessant death of civilians in Donbass from shelling and air raids.
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The battles in Donbass continue, adding to the stunning statistics of mutual losses of the warring parties.
This is what Donetsk and DPR News reported on February 25: “The DPR militia reports a violent tank battle in the south of the Donetsk People's Republic - the Mariupol direction, the southern front. Forces converged in Shirokino people's militia Donbass and security forces of the battalion "Azov".
"A tank battle is going on in Shirokino. It is between Novoazovsk and Mariupol. Both from our side and from the enemy's side, 3-4 units of heavy equipment are involved," informs the headquarters of the DPR 25 02 2015.
The wounded have not yet been admitted to the Novoazovsk hospital. On February 24, two wounded and three shell-shocked militias were admitted. Several DPR fighters came today with minor injuries, also after yesterday's battle. To date, there are no wounded in the Novoazovsk hospital.
Shirokino was considered the territory of the DPR until after the new year it was unexpectedly attacked by "Azov". Now it is considered a neutral territory, and after the announcement of the armistice on February 15, Shyrokyne is the hottest point in Donbass.
Earlier it was reported about the battles of the militia and security forces in the Pesok area. The DPR forces are suffering heavy losses, since the command prohibits the opening of artillery fire.
This is the news of the DPR and the Donetsk People's Republic on February 25. Despite the fact that the ceasefire is "generally respected".
Meanwhile, on February 25, the terrible figures of the real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the ATO in Donbass were once again published.
During the ATO, Ukraine lost only 26 thousand soldiers killed! Look full list losses of the Ukrainian army in Novorossiya.
Until today, the latest data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the so-called ATO in the southeast of the country, leaked to the media, were data on losses for the period from May 2 to September 5. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed, wounded, captured, missing and deserters were called then
47 thousand 103 people.
According to the FSB of the Russian Federation, the total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the punitive operation against the militias of Novorossiya, the so-called ATO, from April 3 to February 15 inclusive, are guaranteed (according to confirmed data):
KILLED: TWENTY-FIVE thousand SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTEEN servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Including: - from the subdivisions of the "Right Sector" - 3 729 people.
- Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - 13 862 people (in mainly 25th airborne Dnepropetrovsk brigade, 95th airmobile Zhytomyr brigade, 24th motorized Lviv brigade, 79th airmobile brigade, 51st, 24th and 72nd mechanized brigades, other units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine)
- Servicemen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine - 4,623 people.
- Servicemen from the SBU units - 379 people.
- Ukrainian border guards - 249 people.
- US military personnel (from the special forces of the DIA, the FBI and the CIA) - 88 people.
- Mercenaries of private military companies: ASBS Othago, Poland, Asademi and Greystone Limited, USA and others - 737 people.
- Servicemen of other categories of armed formations - 1781 people.
For reference: according to operational data of the FSB, killed servicemen from among the militants of the "Right Sector", nat. guards, battalions "Aydar", "Azov" and "Dnepr" were secretly taken to Dnepropetrovsk and secretly burned in the crematorium. The dead servicemen of the "Right Sector" are officially listed as missing.