Russian Satellite Network reported that after more than four months of fighting, the Ukrainian army suffered heavy losses. Daniel Bezsonov, First Deputy Minister of the Donetsk Ministry of Information, said: The Ukrainian army has lost more than 50,000 people.
Bezsonov said that according to information on the Internet, they believe that the Ukrainian army may have died 50,000 people, so according to general proportions, the number of dead and wounded in the Ukrainian army should have reached 150,000. Most of the Ukrainian army's elite troops on the front line have suffered all their casualties.
Bezsonov said that because the Ukrainian army in Donbas suffered too many losses, it has almost lost its combat effectiveness. The troops taking over now are all new recruits with low morale. Therefore, the Ukrainian army is deploying Ukrainian troops deployed on the borders of Kiev and Belarus to the Donbas battlefield.
After the British BBC interviewed Oleksander, a company commander of the Ukrainian Marine Corps on the front line. Captain Oleksandr said that all the soldiers in his company used to be veterans who had undergone long-term training, but now they have lost 80% of their elite strength due to deaths and injuries. The remaining replacements now are inexperienced recruits.
These recruits have not completed basic training, and they know nothing about various collaborative tactics. Moreover, they have no understanding of field health and medical treatment. As a result, many wounded people died on the battlefield without first aid. However, the Ukrainian army had no choice but to hold on and wait for the Russian army to exhaust its offensive energy.
When the Russian army launched the firepower preparations for the second phase of the ground offensive, the intensity of the firepower attack increased greatly. The average daily number of targets reached thousands. Such a firepower battle was obviously finally implemented after Maozi adjusted his tactics and gathered enough equipment and resources.
The Russian army wants to use this firestorm regardless of cost to effectively kill the Ukrainian army's effective forces and destroy the Ukrainian army's solid fortress. To cover the Russian infantry, occupy the position and advance. Therefore, in the second phase of the battle in Donbass battlefield starting in April, the Russian army advanced only 100-200 meters on average every day.
The Russian army took advantage of 10-20 times its firepower to achieve a high exchange ratio in Donbass . As a result, the Ukrainian army suffered relatively large casualties and losses. Vadim Skibitsky, deputy director of Ukraine's Military Intelligence Service, said that one Ukrainian cannon has to face 10-15 Russian cannons, but the Ukrainian army still lacks ammunition.
On the battlefield in Donbass, Ukrainian President Zelensky, Advisor to the Ukrainian Presidential Office Podolyak, and Ukrainian Defense Minister Leznik successively pointed out that Ukraine loses dozens to 200 soldiers every day, and it is estimated that about 100 to 500 people are lost. Injuried. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Army's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that about 100 Ukrainian troops are killed and 100 to 300 injured every day.
According to this calculation, the Ukrainian army will kill at least 100-200 people and injured 100-500 people a day. In one month, 3,000-6,000 people would be killed and 3,000-15,000 wounded. The total casualties were 6,000-21,000.
The casualties are already very huge. There are a total of 60,000 Ukrainian elite troops in the Donbas region. They lost between 6,000 and 20,000 people in one month. How many total losses would there be after four months of war? Therefore, the structure of the Ukrainian army in the Donbas region has been completely disrupted. A large number of front-line combat brigades have been disabled and rebuilt, rebuilt and disabled, and disabled and replenished several times.
For this reason, Britain’s Lionhead Johnson needs to retrain Ukrainian army non-commissioned officers on a large scale. The first phase of training will involve 10,000 non-commissioned officers for 120 days, in order to restore the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian army’s grassroots units.
The Ukrainian army has insufficient firepower, its artillery is too weak, and there are too many recruits. Therefore, the Russian army launched the Lichansisk and Slavyansk battles to completely control the Donbas campaign. The main situation of the battle will still be the Ukrainian army, which will most likely still sit on the ground and squat in the pit, slowly fighting against the Russian army.
As for the Russian army's replenishment of casualties, Russia's best method of coopting them is to first kill those who are disobedient in the newly conquered areas, then suppress them, and finally take the submissive ones as thugs.Whether it is Cossack cavalry , Tatars nomads, Central Asian Muslims, Mongols in the Far East , Chechens , it is the same routine. It is estimated that within a few months, Russia will begin to recruit additional troops in , Kherson, , and Zaporozhye.
