Ukraine claims Russia suffered “significant losses” over the past week on the Bakhmut front

June 12 () –

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have affirmed this Monday that the Russian forces have suffered “significant losses” during the last week on the front around the city of Bakhmut, located in the province of Donetsk (east) and one of the main strategic objectives. of the Moscow offensive in recent months.

“The Russian invaders have suffered significant losses over the past week in the Bakhmut axis,” the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army said in a message on its account on the social network Facebook, before adding that “more than 50 occupants arrive at newspaper with serious injuries to a military hospital in the vicinity of Persianovka, in the Russian province of Rostov”.

“The hospital is saturated and the mortality rate among the seriously injured is high due to the lack of sufficient medical personnel,” he stressed, before noting that Russia “is trying to improve its tactical situation” in the Bakhmut axis, including “operations unsuccessful offensives” towards the towns of Ivanivske and Bila Hora.

It has also stated that the Ukrainian Air Force bombed six “enemy troop concentration” points on Sunday, as well as two command posts, two artillery units and a radar station.

On the other hand, he has highlighted that during the last 24 hours 540 Russian fighters have been “liquidated”, which brings the total to “about 216,180” since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, unleashed on February 24, 2022 by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Along these lines, he has assured that since the beginning of the war, 3,931 battle tanks, 3,746 artillery systems, 362 anti-aircraft defense systems, 314 planes, 299 helicopters, 3,307 drones, 1,183 cruise missiles, 18 boats, 6,471 vehicles and fuel tanks and 510 pieces of “special equipment”.

Russia has not provided data on casualties in the conflict since September, when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the deaths of 5,937 soldiers. The Russian news portal Mediazona raises the total number of deaths to 24,470 -including 1,184 during the last 15 days-, figures that it considers “corroborated” through publicly available data, a work carried out together with the British television channel BBC.