Ukraine War Update NEWS: Overnight & Other News - Losses, Hits, & Aid
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"If you're going to be neutral and you're not going to get involved in arms exports right then you are fully responsible for all this stuff and we can forget about that"
Hello Team!
Jonathan mentions:
- His live interview with a resident of Kharkiv is available to watch
- He is close to reaching 10,126 subscribers on his YouTube channel
🪦 DISCLAIMER FOR GENERAL STAFF LOSSES DATA
- These are real people with real lives and real families who love them. Don’t let the numbers sap your humanity.
- These numbers probably aren’t accurate but they’re the best we have and we don’t need them to be accurate to be indicative of patterns of activity.
- All losses are estimates. Losses cannot be counted with accuracy because of the conditions on the ground.
- Both sides would see it to be of their advantage to minimize their own losses maximize the other side’s losses.
- Neither side releases their losses but we have enough transparency from the Ukrainian side to have confidence in they are indicative.
- Personnel losses are hard to count. If a soldier gets injured, heals up, and returns to the front line only to get injured again, is that one loss or two? Also, how to deal with losses from PMC’s or soldiers fighting with RF from occupied territories?
- Equipment losses are hard to count. If an AA complex involves several parts and one part gets disabled, is that a loss, or a fraction of a loss? If a tank gets disabled, repaired, back into the fight, then disabled again, is that one lost tank or two?
- All recorded losses are vulnerable to multiple reporting. We have already seen numerous cases of multiple drones in the air reporting the same loss from different angles as multiple engagements.
- Losses are not always reported on the same day they occurred. It is frequent that drone losses are reported at least 24 hours after other terrestrial equipment losses. Certain losses may not be reported for days or weeks for military intelligence reasons.
Russian Losses
The daily Ukraine general staff report on Russian losses for April 4th:
- 550 liquidated personnel (numbers have halved over the last week)
- 2 tanks, 6 APCs
- 10 artillery systems, 4 MLRS (artillery is the main cause of troop deaths on both sides)
- 6 drones, 11 vehicles and fuel tanks destroyed
Visually Confirmed Losses
Oryx's visually confirmed losses show:
- 9 Russian tanks and 13 APCs/IFVs lost vs 1 Ukrainian tank and 8 APCs/IFVs
- Russians also lost high-value equipment like a command/signals vehicle, artillery reconnaissance vehicle, and MLRS reloading vehicle
- This shows Russia is losing equipment at an unsustainable rate and of higher military value than Ukraine's losses
UR-77 Mine Clearing Line Charge Used in Bakhmut
Footage shows a captured Russian UR-77 mine clearing vehicle being used by Ukraine to fire explosives down a street in southwest Bakhmut where Russian forces were located. This pulverized the Russian positions. Ukraine has captured at least 13 of these UR-77 vehicles.
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Odds and Ends
- Russians accidentally shot down their own FSB drone, a Chinese-made Rayfly VT260 UAV
- Russia is dropping more guided bombs, which Ukraine currently lacks weaponry to deal with according to Ukraine's Air Force spokesperson
- Russia launched attacks against 8 oblasts in 24 hours, killing 4 and injuring 14 civilians
- A spillway gate was destroyed causing major flooding in a residential area of Kramatorsk, likely a Russian war crime
- Russian nationalist military blogger Igor Girkin says the fronts in Avdiivka and Bakhmut are bogged down for Russia with insignificant gains not justifying heavy losses
- Bill Clinton regrets persuading Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s
Military Aid
- US announced $2.6 billion assistance package including ammunition, air defense missiles, anti-armor weapons, recovery vehicles, fuel tankers, de-mining equipment, and more
- Cluster munitions manufactured by Israel have been showing up in Ukraine, likely supplied through third-party arms dealers against Israel's official policy
- Pakistan is emerging as a key ammunition supplier to Ukraine, providing 122mm rockets compatible with Soviet-era systems Ukraine uses
- Ukraine's foreign minister Kuleba is pushing allies to provide F-16s and claims Ukraine has higher readiness to operate them than assumed
- Training for Ukrainians on US M1 Abrams tanks has not started yet but will begin soon
- Ukraine needs over $37 billion for de-mining; countries like Austria can specialize in providing this as humanitarian aid
- Canadian Red Cross has transferred over $220 million to support Ukraine so far
Ukraine Preparing for Counter-Offensive
Ukrainian infantry brigades are training to cross water obstacles in preparation for a counter-offensive. Footage shows a barely floating, leaky-looking vehicle transporting soldiers across water that Jonathan says he would not want to volunteer to ride in.
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Wrap up
Jonathan had to split the update into two parts because the news went on too long. He plugs his interview from the previous night and asks viewers to like, subscribe and share.
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