Russian losses to date: 9 aircraft on 9 August alone
VALENTYNA ROMANENKO – WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST 2022, 09:03
On 9 August, Russia lost 160 military personnel, nine aircraft and fifteen tanks.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook
Details: On 9 August, Russian forces suffered their heaviest losses on the Donetsk front.
Total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February and 10 August 2022 comprise approximately [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses - ed]:
Approximately 42,800 (+160) military personnel
1,832 (+15) tanks
4,086 (+10) armoured combat vehicles
971 (+7) artillery systems
261 (+0) multiple-launch rocket systems
133 (+0) air defence systems
232 (+9) aircraft
193 (+0) helicopters
766 (+9) operational-tactical UAVs
185 (+0) cruise missiles
15 (+0) ships/boats
3,005 (+7) vehicles and tankers
89 (+2) special vehicles
The information is being confirmed.
Background:
- On the afternoon of 9 August, explosions rocked the military airbase in Novofedorivka, in the Saky district of Russian-occupied Crimea. Sergey Aksyonov, the so-called and Russian-appointed "head of Crimea", reported that one person had been killed and six injured.
- The Russian Defence Ministry claimed that no-one fired on the Saky airfield in Crimea, but that, for some reason, there was a detonation of ammunition. Later on, a source in the Russian Ministry of Defence told TASS that the explosions were caused by a "fire safety violation".
- The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has said it was not aware of what caused the explosions and the subsequent fire at the Saky airfield near Novofedorivka.
- The New York Times quoted a "senior Ukrainian military official with knowledge of the situation" who said that Ukrainian forces were behind the blast at the air base.
- Mykhailo Podoliak, Senior Adviser to Ukrainian President, said that Kyiv was not involved in the explosions at the airfield in Novofedorivka but added that Ukrainian partisans might be behind the blast.
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