December 11, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,180 Ukrainian casualties in the last day

Russian Defense Ministry

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation. 

🚩 The units of the Sever Group of Forces have completed the liberation of Liman in Kharkov region.

💥 Russian troops inflicted losses on the formations of one mechanised brigade, one air assault brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Novaya Sech, and Kucherovka (Sumy region).

🔥In Kharkov direction, units of one heavy mechanised brigade, one jaeger brigade, two motorised infantry brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade have been hit near Prilipka, Staritsa, Vilcha, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).

▪️The enemy losses amounted to up to 145 troops, one motor vehicle, one Israeli-made RADA radar station, and one ammunition depot.

🪖 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces continue to destroy an enemy group surrounded on the left bank of the Oskol River.

💥 Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades of the AFU and one national guard brigade near Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Boguslavka, Novoplatonovka, Kurilovka (Kharkov region) and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The AFU lost up to 215 troops, four U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicles, and one Canadian-made Senator armoured personnel carrier, 11 motor vehicles, one electronic warfare station, and six ammunition depots.

📍The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Two mechanised brigades of the AFU were hit near Seversk, Kramatorsk, Stepanovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 120 troops, two armoured personnel carriers, two armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and three ammunition, materiel, and fuel depots.

🪖 The Tsentr Group of Forces units continued to neutralise encircled AFU formations in Vostochny and Zapadny districts of Dimitrov, as well as to mop up the settlements of Svetloye and Grishino (Donetsk People’s Republic).

💥The Group’s inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, two air assault brigades, three assault regiments of the AFU, two marine brigades, one territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades near Toretskoye, Rodinskoye, Krasnoyarskoye, Svetloye, Shevchenko, Belitskoye, Torskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novopodgorodnoye, and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 415 troops, one Swedish-made Viking armoured personnel carrier, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.

novatoye, Kosovtsevo, Varvarovka, Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region) and Andreyevka (Dnepropetrovsk region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 235 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of one mechanised brigade and two coastal defence brigades of the AFU close to Nikolskoye and Ponyatovka (Kherson region).

▪️More than 50 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, 13 motor vehicles, three artillery guns, including two U.S.-made M777 howitzers, one electronic warfare station, and two ammunition and materiel depots have been neutralised.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on energy and fuel facilities used by the AFU, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.

🎯 Air defence systems shot down ten U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, one Neptune long-range missile, and 396 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

🎯 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed one AFU uncrewed surface vehicle in the central part of the Black Sea.

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

▫️ 669 aircraft, 

▫️ 283 helicopters, 

▫️ 101,909 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

▫️ 639 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

▫️ 26,495 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

▫️ 1,628 MLRS combat vehicles, 

▫️ 31,844 field artillery guns and mortars, 

▫️ 48,815 units of support military vehicles.

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