September 6, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,340 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

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

📍 Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Troops of two mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade have been hit near Mogritsa, Miropolye, Proletarskoye, and Yunakovka (Sumy region).

💥 In Kharkov direction, units of one AFU motorised infantry brigade near Volchansk (Kharkov region) were hit.

▪️ The enemy lost more than 155 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. Three electronic warfare stations and nine material depots were neutralised.

📍 The Zapad Group’s units took more advantageous lines. Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Kupyansk, Blagodatovka, Senkovo (Kharkov region) and Kirovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 240 troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, 22 motor vehicles, and one Western-made field artillery gun. Eight electronic warfare stations and seven ammunition depots were neutralised.

📍 Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops hit formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Fedorovka, Seversk, Pereyezdnoye, and Yablonovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The enemy has lost more than 200 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, and three artillery guns. One electronic warfare station, two counter-fire radars, two ammunition depots, and one POL depot were neutralised.

📍 The Tsentr Group of Forces’ units took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigade near Rodinskoye, Novopavlovka, Zelenoye, Muravka, Krasnoarmeysk, and Dimitrov (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 465 troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.

of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade near Kalinovskoye, Novoselovka, Ivanovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), and Uspenovka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to over 210 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and one Western-made artillery gun.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised AFU brigades and one territorial defence brigade near Stepnogorsk, Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region) and Antonovka (Kherson region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, eight motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, six unmanned surface vehicles, three electronic warfare stations, and four ammunition depots.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted losses on ammunition and materiel depots, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.

🎯Air defence systems shot down five guided aerial bombs and 160 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

💥 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed one AFU high-speed unmanned surface vehicle.

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

▫️ 666 aircraft, 

▫️ 283 helicopters, 

▫️ 82,040 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

▫️ 627 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

▫️ 24,973 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

▫️ 1,589 MLRS combat vehicles, 

▫️ 29,289 field artillery guns and mortars, 

▫️ 41,170 units of support military vehicles.

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