December 10, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,250 Ukrainian casualties in the last day

Russian Defense Ministry

Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

💥 Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one air assault brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, three territorial defence brigades, and one border security detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine near Ryzhevka, Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Bunyakino, Novaya Sech, and Kucherovka (Sumy region).

🔥 In Kharkov direction, losses were inflicted on units of two heavy mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Izbitskoye, Staritsa, Polkovaya Nikitovka, Vilcha, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region). 

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 230 troops, 10 motor vehicles, one field artillery gun, one Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launcher, two Israeli-made RADA radar stations, four ammunition and materiel depots.

🪖 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces continued to eliminate the encircled group of the enemy’s troops on the left bank of the Oskol River.

💥 Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and one national guard brigade near Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Kurilovka, Kovsharovka (Kharkov region), and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 210 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier and one U.S.-made BATT UMG armoured fighting vehicle, 12 pickup trucks, and six ammunition depots.

📍 The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU near Seversk, Kramatorsk, Minkovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 130 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 20 motor vehicles, five materiel depots, and one POL depot.

Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one airmobile brigade, two air assault brigades, three assault regiments of the AFU, three marine brigades, two territorial defence brigades, and three national guard brigades near Volnoye, Shevchenko, Dobropolye, Belitskoye, Rodinskoye, Torskoye, Grishino, Sergeyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 420 troops and four pickup trucks.

↗️ The Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of enemy defences. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, three assault brigades, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Gorkoye, Ternovatoye, Kosovtsevo, Varvarovka, Dobropolye, Novonikolayevka, and Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, and one ammunition depot.

💥  Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one mechanised brigade and one coastal defence brigade of the AFU near Preobrazhenka, Razumovka (Zaporozhye region), Tomarino, and Ponyatovka (Kherson region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 40 troops, 12 motor vehicles, one electronic warfare station, and one materiel depot.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck an enterprise of the Ukrainian defence industry, objects of fuel and power infrastructure used by the AFU as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 146 areas.

🎯 Air defence units shot down 102 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

▫️ 669 aircraft, 

▫️ 283 helicopters, 

▫️ 101,513 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

▫️ 639 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

▫️ 26,478 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

▫️ 1,628 MLRS combat vehicles, 

▫️ 31,830 field artillery guns and mortars, 

▫️ 48,761 units of support military vehicles.

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