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Battle of Vuhledar | |||||||
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Part of the eastern Ukraine campaign in the Russian invasion of Ukraine | |||||||
Ukrainian soldiers in a destroyed building in Vuhledar, February 2023 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ukraine | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Rustam Muradov Sukhrab Akhmedov Mikhail Gudkov[5] |
Nazarii Khiszak[6] Vladyslav Bayak[7][8] | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
Main Battle: 20,000 troops 90 main battle tanks 180 IFVs 100 artillery pieces[18][19] | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Ukrainian claim:
88+ armored vehicles, including 25+ tanks[24] |
Ukrainian claim: "As many as" 60 killed or wounded a day (September only)[6] 100 killed or wounded (one battalion; Nov. '22–Feb. '23)[25] Russian claim: 200 killed or wounded (January 24–25)[12] Equipment losses: 20 armored vehicles destroyed, including two tanks[26] | ||||||
60 civilians killed[27] |
The battle of Vuhledar is a military engagement in the eastern theatre of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, around the town of Vuhledar in western Donetsk Oblast, near the pre-invasion line of contact between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Ukrainian commanders have described it as the largest tank battle of the Russo-Ukrainian War to date.
Russian forces also were losing 150-300 marines a day near Vuhledar, Dmytrashkivskyi said. He estimated the brigade to have comprised some 5,000 soldiers in all, whose members had been killed, wounded or taken prisoner.
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