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 counteroffensi ve].
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, Novomykhailivk a, 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: