Ukraine Admits Shedding Buhlendar in Donetsk, However Russia's Value Is Heavy – Devastating Marine Corps Losses
The worth of the invasion of Ukraine appears to be too heavy for the Russian military.
This week Ukraine admitted that it has misplaced Vukhledar within the Donetsk area. However a BBC investigation, stating that it’s at the moment not attainable to find out the full variety of Russians killed within the assaults towards town that Russia has been attempting to seize because the begin of the warfare.
Nonetheless, the BBC's evaluation confirmed that the one hundred and fifty fifth and fortieth Marine Brigades alone may lose greater than 2,100 troopers at Buhledar, bearing in mind the significantly wounded, useless and lacking. Because of this 40% of the pre-war energy of the 2 brigades was misplaced.
In complete, primarily based on open sources the BBC along with the Mediazona web site and a bunch of volunteers managed to determine the names of 72,004 Russian servicemen who have been killed in the middle of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Greater than half earlier than the beginning of the warfare have been related with the military.
Catastrophic losses to the Marine Corps
Buhledar is taken into account a degree of strategic significance as it’s situated on a hill. The Ukrainian military may strike on the enemy's provide routes.
Probably the most tense and bloody battles for the seize of town have been these of the autumn of 2022 and the winter of 2023. Then within the assaults towards town they threw the elite models of the one hundred and fifty fifth and fortieth brigades of marines “black berets” with the help of armored automobiles and tanks. Motorized models consisting of conscripts and volunteers additionally assisted.
Primarily based on open sources, the BBC was in a position to affirm that at the least 211 marines of the one hundred and fifty fifth Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces have been killed through the assaults in Buhlendar, whereas 42 are lacking.
These losses are 4 occasions higher than the losses of marines within the ten years of the warfare in Chechnya. Among the many useless are 19 officers and battalion commander Chiren Lubshanov.
Marines of the fortieth Black Beret Brigade from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky took half in these battles together with the one hundred and fifty fifth Brigade. Primarily based on open sources, it was attainable to substantiate the deaths of 72 troopers and officers of this unit.
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