For the third week in a row, Russia has lost more than 10,000 troops on the front lines — Estonian intelligence
Estonian intelligence reports that Russian military casualties in the war against Ukraine have exceeded 10,000 troops for the third week in a row. According to Estonian intelligence estimates, this figure exceeds the number of soldiers Russia is able to recruit during the same period.
Kiviselg noted that Russia’s average daily losses this week amount to about 1,600 people, meaning that losses for the week totaled just over 11,000 people.
“Thus, the trend continues: Russia is losing more soldiers on the battlefield than it can replace,” he added.
The head of the intelligence center also noted that Ukraine has, for the first time, released data on its counteroffensive toward Lyman in the Donetsk region, where approximately 85 square kilometers of territory were liberated and cleared during the counteroffensive.
“Ukrainian operations in the Donetsk region are currently ongoing,” Kiviselg added.
Speaking about Ukraine’s other successes, Kiviselg listed airstrikes on Russian oil facilities in the Krasnodar Krai, the Saratov and Samara regions, as well as in the Republic of Tatarstan; a strike on the port of Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea; attacks on chemical plants in the Perm Krai and Volgograd; and a strike on a drone manufacturing plant in the Rostov Oblast.
"Among the military targets were airfields in the Rostov region, as well as air defense systems and launch sites used to store long-range unmanned aerial vehicles in the Rostov and Oryol regions. The damage is still being assessed, but the Ukrainians likely managed to either disable or damage some of the aircraft, and the same applies to helicopters,” the colonel added.
This was stated by the head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, Colonel Ants Kiviselg, as quoted by ERR.
Updated map of hostilities in Ukraine as of September 18: 230 clashes in the past 24 hours.
As a reminder, Russia struck a shopping center in Zaporizhzhia.
In Zaporizhzhia, the number of people injured as a result of a Russian FPV drone attack on a passenger bus has risen. Currently, eight people are known to have been injured—four men and four women. All of them are receiving the necessary medical care.
The enemy attacked a passenger bus in the Kosmichny district of Zaporizhzhia using an FPV drone. At the time of the attack, the bus was carrying passengers who were on their way to run errands.
