January 15, 2026

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,310 Ukrainian casualties in the last day

Russian Defense Ministry

Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

📍 The Sever Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on a mechanised brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defence brigade have been hit close to Khoten and Miropolye (Sumy region).

🔥 In Kharkov direction, units of two mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one territorial defence brigades were hit close to Volchanskiye Khutora, Tikhoye, and Velikiy Burluk (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU lost more than 240 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, 25 motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, two electronic warfare stations, and two materiel depots.

📍 The Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Manpower and military hardware of three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a national guard brigade were hit near Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic), Petrovka, Grushevka, Blagodatovka, Monachinovka, and Kupyansk-Uzlovoy (Kharkov region).

▪️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 190 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 28 motor vehicles, and one artillery gun. Two electronic warfare stations, an AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire radar, and two ammunition depots were neutralised.

📍 The Yug Group’s units improved the situation along the front line. Elements of three mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade, a mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, and two territorial defence brigades have been hit near Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Novotroitskoye, Zakotnoye, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The enemy has lost more than 185 troops, two tanks, six armoured fighting vehicles, four of them foreign-made. Thirteen motor vehicles, six field artillery guns, including two U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery systems, an electronic warfare station, an ammunition depot, and a material depot were neutralised.

📍 The Tsentr Group’s units improved the tactical situation. In addition, strikes were launched at manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, two jaeger brigades, an airmobile brigade, an air assault brigade, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, and four National Guard brigades close to Belitskoye, Grishino, Zavido-Kudashevo (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novopavlovka, Prosyanaya, Mezhevaya, and Novopodgorodnoye (Dnepropetrovsk region).

▪️ Ukrainian armed formations sustained losses of more than 400 troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, 17 motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

echanised brigades, two assault brigades, three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade near Rizdvyanka, Zaliznichnoye, Ternovatoye, Lesnoye, Barvinovka, and Zhovtnevoye (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ Up to 245 troops, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, and three artillery guns including two Western-made artillery guns of the AFU have been neutralised.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of a mountain assault brigade, a coastal defence brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade near Orekhov, Malokaterinovka (Zaporozhye region) and Antonovka (Kherson region).

▪️ Up to 50 Ukrainian troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 11 motor vehicles, one electronic warfare station, and one ammunition depot were neutralised.

✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces have inflicted damage on energy and transport infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as command posts and temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 162 areas.

🎯 Air defence systems shot down five guided aerial bombs, one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile, two Neptune long-range guided missiles, and 265 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:

▫️ 670 aircraft,

▫️ 283 helicopters,

▫️ 109,190 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️ 645 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️ 27,140 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️ 1,641 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️ 32,596 field artillery guns and mortars,

▫️ 51,877 special military vehicles.

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