April 14, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,350 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

💥 Yesterday, the Russian Armed Forces launched two Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles in conditions of heavy electronic warfare countermeasures and foreign-made air defence systems in action to hit the site in Sumy where commanding officers of the Seversk task force had a meeting. More than 60 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been eliminated.

▪️ The Kiev regime continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield by deploying military facilities and carrying out activities involving servicemen in the centre of the densely populated city.

🔥 In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted damage on one mechanised brigade, one coastal brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Lesnoye, Miropolskoye, Petrushevka, and Prokhody (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU lost up to 95 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, one field artillery gun, one MLRS gun, and three electronic warfare stations.

📍 The Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions and defeated the formations of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one artillery brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Kupyansk, Borovaya, Kamenka (Kharkov region), Kirovsk, Karpovka, and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU lost up to 240 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, five motor vehicles, and two artillery guns. One Kvertus electronic warfare station, as well as two ammunition depots, were neutralised.

📍 The Yug Group of Forces units improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one UAV regiment, one territorial defence brigade and one National Guard brigade close to Petrovka, Kalinovo, Tarasovka, Chasov Yar and Kleban-Byk (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The enemy lost up to 315 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, 13 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. Two electronic warfare stations and six ammunition depots were neutralised.

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brigade, and two National Guard brigades close to Mirolyubovka, Lysovka, Zverevo, Rodinskoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Alekseyevka, and Preobrazhenka(Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU lost up to 420 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, six motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.

↗️ The Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance to the depths of the enemy’s defence and engaged manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and two territorial defence brigades close to Shevchenko, Zeleny Kut, Zelenoye Pole, Bogatyr, Voskresenka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU lost up to 165 troops, one tank, five motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.

💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces units hit one mechanised brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and three coastal defence brigades of the AFU close to Novodanilovka, Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region), Ponyatovka, Antonovka, and Nikolskoye (Kherson region).

▪️The enemy losses amounted to up to 55 troops, one M113 armoured personnel carrier and one HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle made in the USA, seven motor vehicles, one American 155-mm M777 howitzer, one electronic warfare station, one Israeli-made RADA radar, and four ammunition depots.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on workshops of the Ukrainian defence industry, military airfield infrastructure, sites storing weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and mercenaries in 137 areas.

🎯 Russian air defence systems shot down six JDAM guided aerial bombs and three HIMARS MLRS projectiles made in the USA, as well as 227 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised:

▫️ 661 aircraft, 

▫️ 283 helicopters, 

▫️ 51,562 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

▫️ 601 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

▫️ 22,833 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

▫️ 1,536 MLRS combat vehicles, 

▫️ 23,602 field artillery guns and mortars, 

▫️ 34,087 units of special military vehicles.

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