Bob Homans January 27
20230127
Ukraine – 1/27 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
January 27, 2023
An Apt Characterization of Imperial Russia and its Successors
In the latest issue of the “New Yorker” magazine, there is an article entitled "Letter From Tbilisi," about Russian novelists who have been incorporated by Putin as part of his effort to buttress his justification for invading Ukraine. The Russian novelists mentioned in the article included Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol. The article contained a wonderful quote about Russia from Medina Tlostanova, who is described in the article as a "decolonial critic." According to her Wikipedia Page, she teaches at a university in Sweden. Ms. Tlostanova describes Imperial Russia along with the Ottoman Sultanate as "a special kind of 'secondary empire,' one that formed on the margins of Europe, and that compensated for its resulting inferiority complex by 'modernizing' its own subject peoples."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Don’t Forget About the APCs
While the pending arrival of main battle tanks is wonderful news for Ukraine, it’s important to remember that Ukraine is getting many Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Strykers from the United States, and similar armored personnel carriers from other countries. Everyone now seems to be focusing exclusively on tanks, and grousing about how long it will take for delivery to Ukraine, especially the Abrams tanks from the US that are expected to arrive in several At the same time, no one is focusing on the armored personnel carriers (APCs). In my opinion this is wrong for several reasons, including:
· The APCs are very powerful weapons in and of themselves. Anyone who watched the account of the Battle of 73 Easting, that I posted 2 days ago, will see how Bradleys were able to knock out Iraqi T-72 tanks with TOW Missiles. The T-72 is the same tank that Russia is employing in Ukraine.
· Ukraine is very familiar with how to employ APCs in combat and they have already developed effective tactics using APCs. This is evidenced by their great success using APCs in the liberation of a large part of Kharkiv and Kherson Oblasts in a short amount of time, especially using the American M-113 a predecessor of the Bradley.
· The Bradleys, Strykers and the APCs coming from other countries in the “Ramstein Coalition,” are a significant upgrade from the M-113. If Ukraine achieved such success last Fall, in Kharkiv and Kherson Oblasts by using M-113s, they should be able to achieve even greater success from employing the Bradleys, Strykers, et al.
· The APCs are faster and more maneuverable that main battle tanks.
Tanks will need to be protected against the kind of attacks against Russian armor that Ukraine employed during the Battle for Kyiv, small units operating with anti-tank rockets. One reason that Ukraine was so successful in stopping the Russians around Kyiv was that Russia was never able to control the air, by using ground attack aircraft to protect its armor. If the United States and its partners are sending such a large number of tanks to Ukraine, fixed wing aircraft needed to protect the tanks against Russian ground attacks are almost certain to follow.
News From the Battlefield
“Reporting From Ukraine” describes Ukrainian successes in the south, around Pavlivka and Vulhedar, that has resulted in a large number of Russian casualties, and Ukrainian success in blocking a Russian attempt to encircle Bakhmut from the north, around Soledar.
Earlier today “Times Radio” interviewed Malcom Nance, a counter terrorism and intelligence expert who served for several months with the International Legion during Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine. He talks about Ukraine’s ability to incorporate the main battle tanks into its army, and what he learned from serving with the International Legion. Well worth the 6 minutes.
The Latest Denys has interesting information about the current Russian inventory of missiles (3:30) and interesting aerial photographs of attacks on Russian tanks around Pavlivka and Vulhedar (4:30). The reason the photographs are interesting is that they show no snow cover and lots of mud, and the difficulties that Russian tanks are having negotiating these conditions. It is likely that these conditions will continue over the next 2-3 months, with brief freezes, giving the APCs Ukraine is getting potentially an even bigger advantage.
1/27 Sitrep
“Yesterday all the Iranian Kamikaze drones were shot down, 47 out of 55 cruise missiles and rockets, and three of the high precision rockets - the so-called carrier busters similar to the missile that recently destroyed the apartment block in Dnipro that killed 45 civilians - fell out of the sky into fields of their own volition. Five rockets made it, hitting one electricity substation and the rest into homes.”
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon January 26 to 12:00 noon January 27, 2022
Abbreviations:
RMA = Regional Military AdministrationSBU = Security Service of Ukraine
RASHISTS = russian Facists/all russian invaders
INTERNATIONAL
January 27
11:41 Bloomberg: Putin is planning a new offensive in Ukraine in February-March.
· He cannot deny the weaknesses of the Russian army, but still believes that a large number of troops, combined with a willingness to suffer losses, will allow Russia to win the war.
11:26 DW: The first Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel arrived in Germany to be trained in working with Marder infantry fighting vehicles.
· As noted, a group of Ukrainian soldiers landed in Cologne on Thursday, January 26, their preparations should begin soon.
09:57 The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Japan is imposing new sanctions on Russian companies and individuals, as well as trade restrictions.
· The list includes 49 Russian companies. A ban on the export of vaccines and medical equipment to Russia is being introduced.
09:46 CTV News - Prime Minister of Morawiecki: Poland plans to transfer 60 PT-91 Twardy tanks to Ukraine
· "If we do not want Ukraine to lose, we must be very open and persistent in our support," the Prime Minister stressed.
09:06: Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. We share the pain of the Jewish people and all those affected by the Nazi terror during World War II.
· It was on this day in 1945 that soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near Auschwitz.
08:01 Reuters: The White House does not rule out supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets.
· White House Deputy National Security Adviser John Feiner said the U.S. was ready to discuss "very carefully" with Kiev and allies the idea of supplying fighter jets to Ukraine.
08:00: Norway will train Ukrainian junior officers and military medics, says Norwegian Defence Minister Bjorn Arild Gram.
09:27 L'Echo: Belgium is preparing a record package of military assistance for Ukraine
· According to the publication, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive weapons worth 90 million euros, which is equal to the cost of all Belgian assistance since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion.
· It is reported that, among other things, Belgium will provide Ukraine with AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, which can be used as anti-aircraft missiles as part of NASAMS systems.
January 26
23:57: EU threatens Belarus with "new and strong" sanctions if directly involved in the war
· "We call on the Belarusian authorities to refrain from any further participation or facilitation of Russia's illegal aggressive war against Ukraine, as well as to immediately stop allowing the use of their territory as a platform for attacks on Ukraine, which in itself is aggression.
· We reiterate that further actions, in particular, any direct participation of the Belarusian military in the Russian aggressive war, will be met with new and strong restrictive measures," the EU said in a statement delivered during a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday in Vienna.
23:35: France does not rule out the possibility of transferring fighters to Ukraine, says Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on National Defense and Armed Forces Thomas Hasiliad.
23:23: New types of weapons will help the Armed Forces to push Russia even further this spring, says US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during a Senate hearing on countering Russian aggression.
23:15: Poland will be able to transfer German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine within a few weeks.
· This was stated in an interview with Radio Plus by the Deputy Minister of National Defense of Poland Wojciech Skurkiewicz.
· He noted that Poland is ready to transfer to Ukraine one company of "Leopards" in the amount of 14 units.
22:45 NBC: U.S. President Joe Biden is planning his visit to Europe next month.
· At the same time, according to NBC, several countries are being considered where the US President may come, including Poland.
· Biden administration officials are also discussing the announcement of another major package of military assistance to Ukraine in late February.
18:49 Bloomberg: The EU is considering limiting prices for Russian diesel fuel to $ 100 per barrel.
· In addition, the EU is exploring the possibility of setting a price limit for Russian petroleum products, which are traded at a discount, for example, on fuel oil, at the level of $ 45.
17:38 U.S. Department of Finance: U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russian individuals and entities.
· Sanctions are imposed against ship repair enterprises, structures and persons associated with PMC "Wagner".
· The US Treasury Department reportedly declared the Wagner group a transnational criminal organization.
· Sanctions were also imposed against Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov and Tatarstan Chairman Rustam Minikhanov.
16:49 EU Reporter: Bulgaria destroyed a drifting mine off the Black Sea coast.
· According to the country's Ministry of Defense, the navy received a signal about a floating object 200 meters from the Black Sea coast, near Tulenovo in northeastern Bulgaria.
· The department said the mine was an "anchor" type of YAM and was installed in the area of hostilities.
15:26: PACE decides on the joint responsibility of the authorities of Russia and Belarus for the war in Ukraine.
· This is stated in the document voted for by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
· "There is no other international criminal tribunal competent to prosecute and punish the crime of aggression committed against Ukraine," the assembly explains.
13:19: The next Ramstein meeting will take place at NATO Headquarters on 14 February, said North Atlantic Alliance spokeswoman Oana Lungescu.
14:11: Ukraine's economy contracted by more than 35% at the end of 2022 due to a full-scale Russian invasion. The monthly budget deficit of the country is estimated at $ 5 billion.
· This is stated in the UN report "World Economic Situation and Prospects, 2023", presented by UN Deputy Secretary-General Li Junhua.
NATIONAL
January 27
11:08 Ukrenergo: Electricity consumption remains at the same level as the massive attack on January 26. There is a significant shortage of power.
· All regional power distribution companies have been brought to consumption limits, which are valid during the day. Already, the Dispatch Center sees exceeding the limits in ten regions, which is why emergency outages are applied in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Volyn, Lviv, Rivne regions. Emergency outages are possible in other areas.
10:58: The SBU reported suspicion to the director of an enterprise in the Zhytomyr region, who "earned" for the gauleiter of the captured part of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo.
· It was his family that was the ultimate beneficiary of this enterprise, which was engaged in the extraction, processing and sale of granite on an industrial scale.
· Part of the profits was directed to meet the needs of the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied part of the south of Ukraine.
09:37: Mykola Tishchenko was expelled from the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.
· This was announced by faction spokeswoman Yulia Paliychuk.
· The decision was made based on the results of an intra-factional survey, which was launched the day before.
08:29 DTEK: In Odesa and Donetsk regions, emergency blackouts continue, schedules do not work.
· In Kyiv, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions – stabilization blackouts.
07:08: Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
· "Over the past day, the enemy has inflicted 44 air strikes. 18 of them - using UAVs such as Shahed-136. All kamikaze drones are shot down. He carried out 70 missile launches, 47 of which were destroyed. He also carried out 125 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems. Unfortunately, enemy strikes killed civilians and destroyed civilian objects."
· Units of the Defense Forces last day repulsed Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Ploshanka, Nevsky and Chervonopopivka in the Luhansk region and Verkhnekamenskoye, Paraskoviyivka, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Vodiane, Nevelskoye, Marinka and Vuhledar in the Donetsk region,
· Over the past day, Ukrainian aviation has inflicted 8 strikes on areas of concentration of Russians, as well as a strike on the position of their anti-aircraft missile system. In addition, 3 Russian reconnaissance UAVs were shot down,
· Units of the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit 4 control points, the area of concentration of Russian manpower, 2 areas of concentration of artillery, ammunition depot and 2 other important objects.
00:13 The Guardian: In 4 months, more than 6.5 thousand Russian soldiers surrendered through the hotline "I want to live".
· From 50 to 100 calls are received daily. Often call directly from the front line.
· In December alone, the website of the "I want to live" program was visited by more than 1.5 million citizens of the aggressor country.
00:47: The number of ships' exits from Ukrainian ports has fallen to an anti-record due to Russia's blocking of the "grain corridor” by slow-walking required inspections, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
· "Only 2.4 million tons of grain left the corridor for the first month of the new year, while in September and October it was more than 4 million tons," the ministry reports.
January 26
23:05 President: The most difficult situation with energy supply is in Odesa, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Sumy and Poltava regions.
· Power engineers and utilities are doing everything necessary to restore generation.
22:57: Instagram blocked the page of boxer Vasyl Lomachenko for viewing from Ukraine.
22:37 Ministry of Reintegration: In Ukrainian embassies abroad, it will be possible to get married, annul marriage or make changes to civil status records.
· In addition, embassies abroad will be able to re-issue certificates of state registration, regardless of the place of storage of the paper original.
21:34: Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
· "We discussed measures to counter even more reliable countering future missile threats.
· They also heard reports from the commanders of the operational forces on the current situation at the front. We examined the situation in detail in the Bakhmut direction."
20:29: Center to counter disinformation: Hostile Information Service Providers are spreading on the network that the European Union is preparing to deport military men and women to Ukraine for mobilization
· The fake letter allegedly from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Polish administration is actively distributed by pro-Russian media and social media channels.
· The Embassy of Ukraine in Latvia also reported that the local self-government of Latvia received so-called requests/letters allegedly from the Embassy of Ukraine with a request to provide personal data of Ukrainian citizens of draft age who are in Latvia.
· The Embassy did not send such requests/letters to the relevant Latvian state authorities.
· Thus, we see that the enemy is trying to discredit Ukraine in the international arena, as well as to obtain information about Ukrainians abroad, followed by the use of this data in their own manipulations.
17:24: People's Deputy Mykola Tishchenko was not sent on a business trip to Thailand, the head of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said.
· "Mykola Tishchenko did not go anywhere abroad. Accordingly, I, as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, did not sign the order for a business trip to Thailand," Stefanchuk wrote.
19:04 Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 January 26:
· "The threat of air and missile strikes throughout Ukraine remains in the future.
· During this day, the enemy inflicted 37 air strikes. 17 of them - using UAVs such as Shahed-136. All these drones were shot down. In addition, the Russian occupiers carried out 59 missile launches, 47 of which were destroyed.
· Unfortunately, there are hits on civilian objects, there are deaths among civilians. The invaders also carried out 53 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems."
· "To achieve the previously stated goals, despite significant losses, the enemy continues its offensive in the Bakhmut and Novopavlovsk directions.
· In the Liman and Avdiivka directions, the enemy conducted unsuccessful actions in order to improve the tactical position. In the rest of the directions, it defends itself."
· "Counterintelligence measures are underway in some temporarily occupied settlements of the Kherson region.
· The Russian occupiers are actively looking for Ukrainian patriots. And in the building of the former Gornostayevsky RV of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Kherson region, the Russian invaders set up a torture chamber.
· You can get to it simply for unsupported suspicion of cooperation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
· "In the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Simferopol, all budgetary institutions, under the pretext of reform, were instructed to reduce employees by 10 percent.
· It is also known that the lists of persons who fell under the "optimization" should be compiled by February 1 of this year."
· "During the day, our defenders shot down 3 reconnaissance UAVs of the occupiers.
· During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces inflicted 8 strikes on areas of concentration of enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as a blow to the position of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile system.
· "Units of the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in a day hit 3 control points, the area of concentration of enemy manpower, the area of concentration of artillery and 2 other important military objects of the invaders."
16:27: The head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, reacted to Mykola Tishchenko's trip to Thailand.
· Mykola Tishchenko will be dismissed from his post as deputy head of the Servant of the People faction and expelled from the CH faction, Arakhamia said.
· Earlier, on the website page of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Thailand, it was reported that the People's Deputy of the Servant of the People Mykola Tishchenko went to Thailand to "discuss issues of improving interaction with representatives of the Ukrainian community" at the four-star hotel in Bangkok Novotel.
16:06: 11 people were killed in a massive Russian strike, State Emergency Service spokesman Oleksandr Khorunzhyi said.
· "Russian strikes on Ukraine on January 26 killed 11 people. Another 11 were injured. This is the result of drone and missile attacks. The hit was recorded in 11 regions. 35 buildings were damaged, most of them in the Kyiv region," he said.
15:36 DTEK: Kyiv and the region are returning to the schedules of stabilization outages.
· The company also said that hospitals, boiler houses, pumping stations and other critical infrastructure of the city were healed in Odesa.
15:04: The National Bank has decided to keep the discount rate at 25% per annum, which may remain until the end of the first quarter of 2024, said NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy.
· Pyshnyy also announced the National Bank's inflation forecasts:
o 18.7% - in 2023;
o 10.4% - in 2024;
o 6.7% - in 2025.
· At the same time, the National Bank has worsened its forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2023 to 0.3%.
14:01 CNN - Defence Intelligence of Ukraine: Ukraine needs longer-range missiles before Russia deploys reinforcements.
· "Now Russian military depots are located 80-120 km from the front line, and in order to strike at them, Ukraine needs longer-range artillery. Long-range artillery is also needed so that Ukraine can launch a counterattack before Russia deploys reinforcements."
13:49 Operational Command South: Russia releases "Shahed" kamikaze drones ahead of a massive missile attack to deplete Ukraine's air defense system.
· According to her, the night attack by kamikaze drones testified to an attempt to deplete air defense. The downing of drones was recorded in parts of Kirovohrad and Cherkasy regions.
· (Not one kamikaze drone made it to a target. – ed)
13:39 Ukrenergo: As a result of Russian shelling, there is damage to equipment in the southern, central, south-western regions of Ukraine.
· In the Dnipro region, at one of the power facilities, the main high-voltage equipment was destroyed.
13:10 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: The air defense forces destroyed 47 of the 55 cruise missiles that the Russian military fired at Ukraine.
· In addition, three of the four Kh-59 guided missiles did not reach their targets.
12:37 Minister of Energy: The most difficult situation with electricity is now in Kyiv, Odesa and Vinnytsia regions.
· Hits to critical infrastructure facilities were recorded, emergency outages were in effect.
MORDOR (Russia)
January 27
10:36 British intelligence: The Russians carried out test local attacks near Orikhov and Vuhledar, but it is unlikely that they have made any significant progress there.
· "There is a real possibility that Russian news sources are deliberately spreading disinformation in an attempt to show that the Russian operation is gaining momentum," the report said.
08:18 Institute for the Study of War: Russia runs out of Iranian drones, Moscow asks Tehran for additional parties.
· According to analysts, the occupiers remained in service with about 90 "Shahedi". Given the fact that Ukrainian defenders have learned how to effectively shoot them down, this is not enough for the Russian Federation.
January 26
22:24 Deputy Minister of Defense: Russians massively burn their dead in crematoriums and do not even identify and record dead soldiers,
· "Thus, the Russian command hides huge losses of personnel and continues to apply the traditional Russian practice of depriving the families of the victims of benefits and compensations advertised by Russian propaganda," Malyar wrote.
18:19: In Russian Norilsk, in a building on an area of 1 thousand square meters. Kv. m there was a fire, according to preliminary data, there were no casualties, the regional head of the Ministry of Emergencies said in a statement.
KHARKIV
January 27
10:07 Kharkiv RMA: Last day, Russians massively shelled Kupyansk, Vovchansk, Strelecha, Dvorechnaya and other settlements.
· In Biennial, 2 civilians were killed – a man and a woman. In the village of Kozacha Lopan, a 70-year-old woman suffered minor injuries, and a 60-year-old woman was wounded in Vovchansk.
· Yesterday, between the villages of Krasnoye and Velyka Komyshuvakha, Izyum district, two men, aged 40 and 35, exploded on an unknown explosive device in a field.
· Doctors assess the condition of one of the wounded as serious, the other - of moderate severity.
January 26
16:55 Kharkiv RMA: Russians shelled the village of Dvorichna this afternoon.
· According to preliminary information, two civilians were killed: a man and a woman. Details on the victims and the extent of the damage are being clarified.
21:57 Prosecutor General's Office: The Russian army killed three and wounded eight more people in the Donetsk region.
· The Russians fired artillery and MLRS "Grad" in Bogoyavlenka village of Volnovakha district, Avdiivka and Bakhmut. The impact of the shells damaged and destroyed private, apartment buildings and outbuildings.
14:23 Kharkiv RMA: Today, the Russian occupiers once again shelled the village of Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv district. There is a hit on a residential building.
· According to preliminary information, a 70-year-old woman was injured.
· In addition, the enemy shelled Kupyansk. A private residential building was destroyed there.
DONETSK
January 27
11:57 Donetsk RMA: Active shelling of Vuhledar continues in the Volnovakha direction.
· 7 houses and 2 schools were damaged in the city. In the community, 2 people were killed and 1 wounded in Epiphany; shelling of Novoukrainka was recorded. At night, there were 2 massive shelling of Avdiivka - there is damage.
January 26
15:15 Donetsk RMA: The Russians struck the village of Ocheretyne in the Donetsk region with artillery, destroyed at least three private houses.
· Two people were killed and at least one was injured in russian war criminals' shelling of the village.
ZAPORIZHIA
January 26
21:45 Mayor of Melitopol: Belarusian military is present in the temporarily occupied Kyrylivka of the Zaporizhia region.
· "They can be employees of a private military company. We do not know how they will cover up participation in the war against Ukraine.
· In fact, they have chevrons of some Vitebsk unit or brigade. This is what our residents see," Fedorov said.
13:30 Zaporizhia Regional Prosecutor's Office: At night, the occupiers struck a critical infrastructure facility in Zaporizhia with S-300 missiles. Three people were killed and seven others were injured.
· During today's rocket attack, there was a second shelling while rescuers were working on the spot. Data on victims are being clarified.
DNIPRO
January 26
20:40 District Military Administration: Russians beat almost all day from the "grads" on Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.
18:33 DTEK: Dnipropetrovsk region returns to the outage schedules.
· "After the shelling, the situation is still difficult, so we ask you to use powerful devices moderately so as not to overload the power grids," the statement said.
ODESA
January 26
16:39 Odesa RMA: The man who launched the fireworks during the alarm in Odessa has already been detained, he confessed to the crime.
14:46 Odesa RMA: Air defense units shot down another Russian missile over Odesa region. It was launched by the plane.
14:17 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the Odessa region, subscribers report. Pre-working air defense.
12:17 Odesa RMA: Air defense units shot down three Kalibr missiles in the sky over Odesa region. There are no casualties in the area.
· Due to problems with water supply, mobile pump rooms and mobile water carriers will start operating in Odessa.
KYIV
January 26
19:41: A mural depicting a soldier with a reconnaissance drone SHARK appeared at one of the OKKO filling stations in Kyiv – at the intersection of Bogatyrska and Luhova streets.
· The image covers the entire wall of the gas station, reaching 30 meters in length and 9 meters in height https://www.okko.ua/30-metrovij-mural-iz-sharkom-z-yavivsya-na-azk-okko-u-kiyevi
· 25 reconnaissance complexes, which will include a passenger vehicle, drones, launchers, will be purchased and transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine within the framework of the joint initiative of OKKO and "Come Back Alive" foundation.
14:54 Kyiv RMA: Explosive objects will be destroyed in the Vyshgorod district today, so in some communities of the Kyiv region the sounds of explosions can be heard.
12:22 Kyiv RMA: In the Kyiv region, an energy facility was hit, emergency power outages were applied.
· There is also damage to civilian infrastructure, private and multi-storey buildings as a result of night and morning attacks. There are no casualties.
12:07 Kyiv City Military Administration: In the airspace of Kyiv, about 20 missiles of various types were recorded during the attack, all air targets were destroyed by air defense, according to the KMVA.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://euromaidanpress.com/
https://cutt.ly/Blyskavka