{"id":322474,"date":"2026-08-16T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:38:19","slug":"putin-loses-43k-soldiers-in-ukraine-in-one-of-wars-bloodiest-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322474\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin loses 43K soldiers in Ukraine in one of war’s bloodiest months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia suffered some of its most staggering losses of the war in July, while Kyiv made its largest territorial gains in more than a year, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s military lost 42,860 men on the battlefield last month, which includes soldiers killed and wounded, the most since January 2025 \u2014 and the fourth bloodiest month since the start of the war in 2022.<\/p>\n

With total casualties now allegedly nearing 1.5 million and recruitment increasingly becoming an obstacle\u00a0 for Russian President Vladimir Putin, the tyrant could soon be forced to engage in peace talks if he runs out of soldiers, experts have posited.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a briefing Russian Navy Slava-class missile cruiser on Aug. 12, 2026. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

Putin has become so desperate in recent months, he\u2019s had to lure his countrymen to join the war effort with false promises of \u201cquiet service\u201d<\/a> \u2014 or recruit Africans under similarly deceitful schemes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 North Koreans troops<\/a> are being prepared to be deployed in Russia, according to Ukraine. The Putin ally already sent 15,000 soldiers back in 2024.<\/p>\n

Ukraine, meanwhile, says it has liberated close to 300 square miles along the southern front, retaking 26 settlements along the frontline and placing them back under full Ukrainian control.<\/p>\n

Kyiv has pushed Russian troops back more than seven miles on the southern front, near the intersection of the Dnipro, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, through small attacks to gradually erode Russian control gradually.<\/p>\n

Overnight int the past day, Ukrainian forces fired missiles deep inside Russia \u2014 causing \u201csignificant damage\u201d at a military airbase, an oil depot and a state-run aerospace center.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced deep strikes inside Russia Saturday. x\/ZelenskyyUa<\/p>\n

Ukraine says it has liberated close to 300 square miles along the southern front in Russia\u2019s Samara region. x\/ZelenskyyUa<\/p>\n

Long-range Flamingo missiles struck the Savasleyka airbase in western Russia, 435 miles from the border. It houses MIG-31 jets carrying ballistic missiles that strike Ukrainian cities and villages, but it\u2019s not known how many jets were hit in the attack.<\/p>\n

Explosions were also heard in Samara, where Kyiv struck the Progress Rocket Space Center, one of the key enterprises of the state-run aerospace corporation Roscosmos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe progress center, which was involved, among other things, in producing electronics, was hit. Flamingo missiles were used \u2014 a good achievement,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important that Russia\u2019s war potential be reduced,\u201d Zelensky said Saturday. x\/ZelenskyyUa<\/p>\n

Russia fired 152 Shahed drones at Ukraine over the past day. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

At some 560 miles from Ukraine\u2019s border, it was Kyiv\u2019s deepest strike into Russia of the war. <\/p>\n

van Noskov, head of the Samara, called it a \u201cmassive attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyiv also damaged an oil facility in Ust-Luga, which caught on fire, 500 miles from the border, Zelensky said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important that Russia\u2019s war potential be reduced,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cPeace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia \u2013 through concrete damage to specific facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

A portion of a building was left destroyed after a Russian airstrike on Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Aug. 14, 2026. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ukraine fired at least seven guided bombs, 17 Flamingo cruise missiles and 1,328 drones over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n

Russia responded with 152 Shahed drones, killing a 3-month-old child in Dnipro and injuring 49 others across Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia suffered some of its most staggering losses of the war in July, while Kyiv made its largest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1219,9,11,10,30382,9045,9046,9047,9048,14123,1076],"class_list":["post-322474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-drones","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-north-korea","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}