Russian units lose half of their soldiers during withdrawal from Kharkiv Oblast – General Staff report

SUNDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2022, 07:01

Units of the 11th Army Corps of the Baltic Sea Fleet of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have lost over 50% of their military personnel and more than 200 pieces of equipment in the course of withdrawal from Kharkiv Oblast [as a result of Ukraine’s counteroffensive].

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 18 September 

Details: In addition, the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces lost over 90% of its military personnel, who were killed, wounded, deserted or fired as a result of refusing to take part in hostilities. The Brigade’s equipment is being transferred to border security units of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in preparation to disbanding the unit.

The General Staff notes that Russian occupying forces are suffering significant losses following their attempts to assault the Ukrainian defence forces [collective name for all Ukrainian military formations involved in the ongoing combat in this country - ed.] on the Avdiivka front. According to the available information, over 30 military personnel of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces end up in hospitals daily. The occupiers are doing everything they can to restore combat capability of the units that have sustained losses.

Russian forces carried out six missile strikes, 28 airstrikes and 90 MLRS attacks on military and civilian targets across the territory of Ukraine over the course of 17 September, damaging infrastructure in more than 30 cities, towns and villages, including Kharkiv, Dvorichna, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Neskuchne, Uspenivka, Myroliubivka, Biliaivka, Vysokopillia and Mykolaiv.

In addition, the Russians hit civilian targets on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, and in Chuhuiv and Kramatorsk. There are civilian casualties.

There were no changes on the Volyn and Polissia fronts. On other fronts, the Russians continued to fire on military and civilian targets using tank guns and various types of artillery:

• On the Sivershchyna front: area in the vicinity of Huta-Studenetska (Chernihiv Oblast);

• On the Kharkiv front: areas in and around Kozacha Lopan, Hoptivka, Strilecha, Vysoka Yaruha, Vovchansk, Hatyshche, Budarky, Dvorichna, Kupiansk, Kamianka; Russian forces carried out some of the attacks on this front from the territory of the Russian Federation;

• On the Kramatorsk front: Raihorodok, Ozerne, Pyskunivka, Kryva Luka, Siversk, Mykolaivka, Verkhnokamianske, Spirne and Vesele;

• On the Bakhmut front: Rozdolivka, Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Zaitseve, Odradivka, Mykolaivka Druha, Maiorsk and New-York;

• On the Avdiivka front: Kamianka, Avdiivka, Vodiane, Opytne and Krasnohorivka;

• On the Zaporizhzhia front: Kamianske, Stepove, Orikhiv, Huliapilske, Bilohiria, Olhivske, Temyrivka Novosilka, Velyka Novosilka, Neskuchne, Prechystivka and Vuhledar;

• On the Pivdennyi Buh front, Russian forces fired on Ukrainian positions along the entire line of contact; in addition, they fired on more than 20 towns and villages, including Trudoliubivka, Petrivka, Bila Krynytsia, Lozove, Blahodativka, Shyroke, Partyzanske, Ternovi Pody, Lymany, Myrne and Tavriiske.

The Ukrainian defence forces have successfully repelled Russian attacks near Mykhailivka Druha, Vesela Dolyna, Odradivka, Marinka, Novomykhailivka and Pravdyne.

Over the course of 17 September, aircraft of Ukraine’s Air Force carried out airstrikes on 13 areas where Russian military personnel and equipment were concentrated, as well as three Russian anti-aircraft defence systems. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defence units shot down five Russian UAVs and one Ka-52 helicopter.

Ukraine’s missile forces and artillery units fired on more than 200 Russian targets, including 12 command posts, ammunition and fuel and lubricants storage points, artillery positions and areas of concentration of Russian troops and military equipment.

The General Staff has obtained information that the Russian occupiers are forcing civilians out of their homes in the villages of Pryozerne and Tryfonicka in Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. Russian troops are also forcing local residents, under the threat of death, to help fortify the Russian positions near Chonhar, also in Kherson Oblast.

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