Ukraine says it has inflicted one of Russia's heaviest ever day of losses with more than 1,000 casualties: Putin's losses now stand at 2,800 troops, 80 tanks and 516 armoured vehicles as fightback continues

- Ukrainian forces claimed on Friday to have destroyed part of an airfield in south Russia in missile strike Friday
- Kyiv's forces have shot out seven Russian helicopters, destroyed at least 80 tanks, blitzed up to 10 fighter jets
- Ukraine military far inferior to its Russian counterpart with an air defence system dating back to the Soviet era
- NATO and US have made it clear that no troops will be sent and left Ukraine military to hold off assault alone


Ukrainian forces claimed today to have inflicted one of Russia's heaviest ever day of losses with more than 1,000 casualties.

It comes as new totals by Kyiv's defence ministry put President Vladimir Putin's losses at 2,800 troops, 80 tanks, 516 armoured vehicles, 10
airplanes and seven helicopters.

Russian officials have made similar claims - that Moscow has captured more than 160 troops; destroyed 74 Ukrainian military ground facilities; downed five fighter jets and one helicopter; and destroyed 18 tanks and other armoured vehicles.



Meanwhile Ukrainian forces earlier today claimed to have hit an airfield in Millerovo in Rostov, southern Russia, destroying at least one of Moscow's Su-30SM fighter jets.

Footage posted online purported to show the tail end of a missile strike on the Russian military's airbase around 10am local time (8am GMT) with several buildings on the site engulfed in flames.


At least 37 Ukrainians, among them several civilians, have been killed and hundreds more injured in fighting in the past 24 hours.

Russian troops were by this afternoon bearing down on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv after advancing from Chernobyl, less than 60 miles north of the city, this morning.

Ukrainian troops tasked with the city's defence began setting up defensive positions across highways, on bridges and on street corners in preparation for what seemed set become a bloody street-to-street fight over the weekend.

Kyiv's military, which was left to face Moscow alone after NATO and the US confirmed they would not put boots in the ground, is far inferior to its Russian counterpart with an air defense system and air force dating back to the Soviet era.

Few expect Ukraine to emerge victorious from what is almost certain to be a prolonged, bloody, and vicious war - but so far, Kyiv's forces have managed to inflict heavy losses on Putin's troops.

Helicopters, jets and planes

Ukrainian forces downed a Russian fighter jet over Kyiv early on Friday and later hit an airfield in Millerovo in Rostov, southern Russia, destroying at least one Su-30SM around 10am local time (8am GMT).

Meanwhile by late Thursday forces had claimed to have shot down at least six helicopters, including four Russian KA-52 Alligator attack helicopters during a battle for Gostomel air base on Thursday. A fifth helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at the field under heavy fire.

Just after midday on Thursday, the skies over Kyiv swarmed with a squadron of 20 Russian helicopters which pounded the air base's runway.

But Ukrainian ground forces launched a fight-back, moving in to retake the air field as jets streaking over the city, shooting down the Russian helicopters.

The attack underlined just how close the invaders were to the capital. Soon after, the distant roar of fighter jets high above the city stoked another wave of panic.

The Ukrainians also reported their MiG jets shot down at least one Mi-8 helicopter.

Ukrainian forces also claimed to have shot down six Russian jets sky over the eastern Donbass region while another plane appeared to fall from the skies near the capital.

Shortly after 7pm GMT on Tuesday, Russia's defence ministry said a Russian Antonov An-26 transport plane carrying military equipment crashed in its southern Voronezh region near Ukraine, killing all crew members on board.

'During a planned flight to transport military equipment, an An-26 aircraft of the Russian aerospace forces crashed,' the defence ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.

'The crew died,' the statement said, without providing any details.

The defence ministry blamed equipment failure for the crash, which it said had not caused any destruction on the ground.

A defence ministry spokesman, speaking to AFP, confirmed the crash but declined to say how many crew members had been killed.

An-26 planes carry up to six crew members and up to 38 military personnel. Overall, the Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have shot down five aircraft and six helicopters.

Tanks
Ukrainian forces destroyed dozens of Russian tanks along the eastern and northern borders by the end of the day on Thursday, adding two more and a fighting vehicle in Trohizbenko to the tally early on Friday.

According to the country's defence ministry, the figure was higher than 30 by the end of Thursday. They also claimed to have destroyed 'up to' 130 armoured combat vehicles.

Ukrainian forces put up a stiff resistance around Kharkiv where multiple Russian tanks and armoured vehicles were pictured destroyed - with bodies lying in the streets.

Later, another BMP fighting vehicle was captured, along with the crew of four Russian soldiers, in the same region in eastern Ukraine.

And around 2pm local time (12pm GMT) the Ukrainian military said troops had destroyed five armoured transport vehicles and a car during fighting at the Vistupovich-Rudnya border point between Ukraine and Belarus.

A further 15 T-72 tanks were destroyed or damaged by the Ukrainian forces using the Javelin PTRK, an American anti-tank missile, nearly Glukhov in the country's east late this afternoon.

In other incidents, tank-busting rocket launchers donated by Britain were said to have destroyed Russian tanks, while Javelin missiles gifted by Sweden destroyed a column of enemy vehicles.


Troops
Dozens of Russian troops have been captured by Ukrainian forces, Kyiv's ministry of defence has claimed. Britain's Ministry of Defence put Moscow's losses around 450, though it was not clear if that included captured or dead soldiers.

Videos posted by the Ukrainian MoD early on Friday purported to show at least nine captured Russian soldiers.

Several Russian troops videoed by their captors have claimed they believed they were conducting training exercises in the border regions and did not know they were being sent to invade Ukraine.

The claim was echoed by the brigade commander of the 74th brigade of motorcycle rifles, believed to be a reconnaissance platoon made up of 20 to 50 soldiers, who allegedly surrendered to Ukrainian forces during fighting on Thursday.

Commander Konstantin Buynichev is said to have claimed he only learned of the invasion on Wednesday and believed they were returning home.

He allegedly said: 'Nobody thought that we were going to kill. We were not going to fight – we were collecting information.'

The announcement of Buynichev and his troops' capture was posted by the Ukrainian MoD with a picture of a the commander with a bandaged arm and wearing a bloodied uniform which appeared to say 'Russian Army'.



SOURCE:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10550583/Ukraine-war-Battle-Kyiv-begins-war-enters-hardest-day.html?ico=nextgallery-close


Lalasticlala, Mynd44, OAM4j

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Is Russia this weak under Putin?
How little Ukraine is look how they are dealing with Russia.. imagine NATO intervenes. Disaster overload.

Ukraine is one hell of a rugged country..with the way Putin was bleating around I was expecting something but this is a blow to all his nairaland puppet..

No matter how much he tries I still stand by my words "Putin will never achieve his evil motive against Ukraine and the world"
#stand with Ukraine..

Nice one from Ukraine.

Russia is a big bully, and one thing I have discovered about bullies is that they have no power only mouth.

Russia never envisaged this, they never thought Ukraine will have the guts to fight them back. But Ukraine is giving them back to back.

This has shown me the weakness of mouthed Russia and Putin. Imagine only Ukraine can do this havoc to Russia, so what if NATO should do something about Putin madness, seriously Russia may not exist again.


Putin is doing himself. Russia was one of the most feared and respected country in the world, even Putin is one of the most respected and influential leader in the world. At the tail end of this war, Russia will loose all the respect they garnered for these years, and Putin will be nothing in the faces of men. Useless cowards weaklings.

We do not pray for war, but whoever threatened the world peace through war must be given overdose of what he wanted.

Propaganda, propaganda... anyway, I hope this imaginary victory won't end in the surrender of Ukraine and her people

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over to you righteousness2. Who are those support gog and magog

Hashabiah:
Propaganda, propaganda... anyway, I hope this imaginary victory won't end in the surrender of Ukraine and her people

This sort of war hardly ever produces a winner.
Those fueling it obviously have other objectives other than just winning.

2800
what a colossal loss!

Biafran military still holds the ace and the world Guinness book of record of destroying a whole second division of 7000 soldiers of the Nigerian military at abagana by a platoon headed by major Jonathan uchendu with an improvised Biafran ogbunigwe with only a single shot, sending general murtala Mohamed to a forced self exile over seas until the world ended.

Meanwhile the modern era Biafra agitators are busy causing internal economic bleeding with their aimless monday sitt at home and killing ofprominent igbo business men some of who fought in the first Biafran war. Tufiakwa may bastards not take over Biafra land

You see daily mail and the sun in the UK, they are a joke to journalism

Ok

Propaganda wins war too..
More of it.

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Hashabiah:
Propaganda, propaganda... anyway, I hope this imaginary victory won't end in the surrender of Ukraine and her people

Don't mind them, Russia is losing troops and at the same time same Russia is capturing ur territories, continue...

Oochim

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Is Russia this weak under Putin?
How little Ukraine is look how they are dealing with Russia.. imagine NATO intervenes. Disaster overload.

Ukraine is one hell of a rugged country..with the way Putin was bleating around I was expecting something but this is a blow to all his nairaland puppet..

No matter how much he tries I still stand by my words "Putin will never achieve his evil motive against Ukraine and the world"
#stand with Ukraine..

Russia will definitely inflict far more damage should this escalate further but Putin never expected this amount of resistance from Ukraine.

AntonVince:


Russia will definitely inflict far more damage should this escalate further but Putin never expected this amount of resistance from Ukraine.

All I know is he can't win this..

Propaganda figures by Ukraine, how can you be killing that number of russian troops yet they have reached the outskirts of your capital which will likely fall any time soon in less than 48 hours after the war started.

FERNANDEZISBACK:

All I know is he can't win this..

As someone said already

Russia is loosing yet dominating territories?? .

By now you guys should be able to know the western propaganda.

Sergio101:


As someone said already

Russia is loosing yet dominating territories?? .

By now you guys should be able to know the western propaganda.

Propaganda or not Russia will never achieve it's Evil aim..get that into your head..

I'm sorry, but this report is a huge pile of BS. Let's get a few things straight: yes the Ukrainians are fighting back and are fighting back HARD. But 2800 Russians killed?? Abeg that is absolute nonsense. As for the lost aircraft, yes a Russian Kamov was forced to land after taking damage, and I think another helicopter was shot down. That said the other claims make absolutely no sense. The Ukrainians were able to shoot down highly maneuverable fighter jets, yet could only shoot down a few helicopters? C'mon! Who's buying this be? This is total disinformation.

Finally, look at the source. It's the Daily Mail.....nuff said.

tamdun:

Don't mind them, Russia is losing troops and at the same time same Russia is capturing ur territories, continue...

The Russians have already reached Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

Are those russian soldiers tied up? Wonders. I thought they were invincible

Propaganda war. They killed so many soldiers, destroyed all that equipment and yet Russia has gotten to Kiev and are about to take the town.

Daily mail. Nigger pls. Is that even a newspaper

In war, the first casualty/victim is the TRUTH.

For those of you accusing Biden of being weak.... He's more technical and far more Intelligent than Putin....


Ukraine now having underground support from NATO....

edmaraja:
Propaganda figures by Ukraine, how can you be killing that number of russian troops yet they have reached the outskirts of your capital which will likely fall any time soon in less than 48 hours after the war started.

Actually, those at the outskirts of the capital are the paratroopers airdroped, tanks division won't move that fast due to fighting and resistance.
And the tank division also would be weary of any antitank fire