October 8, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense:  up to 1,500 Ukrainian casualties in the last day

Russian Defense Ministry

A‘rmed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

💥 Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and one border detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine close to Alekseyevka, Varachino, Kondratovka, Korchakovka, Pershe Travnya, Rogoznoye, and Yastrebinoye (Sumy region).

💥 In Kharkov direction, units of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and one border detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have been hit near Volchansk, Kolodeznoye, and Obukhovka (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU have lost up to 220 servicemen. Two armoured fighting vehicles, 16 motor vehicles, four artillery guns, and eight ammunition and materiel depots were neutralised.

📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops inflicted losses on two mechanised brigades of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade near Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic), Kupyansk, Kurilovka, Novoosinovo, and Palamarevka (Kharkov region).

▪️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 225 troops, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 25 motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer. Two radar stations of aerial targets detection, three electronic warfare stations, and seven ammunition depots were neutralised.

💥 Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and completed the neutralisation of Ukrainian armed formations blocked in the area south of Kleban-Byk Reservoir in Donetsk People’s Republic. Russian troops inflicted losses on formations of five mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one air-mobile brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Druzhkovka, Zakotnoye, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Pazeno, Privolye, Reznikovka,  Svyato-Pokrovskoye, and Seversk (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 troops, one tank, and five armoured fighting vehicles, including U.S.-made HMMWV and MaxxPro armoured vehicles. The AFU has lost 18 motor vehicles, four artillery guns, including two German-made 155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery systems, one Grad MLRS vehicle, one electronic warfare station, two counter-fire stations, and five ammunition and materiel depots.

📍 Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. The Tsentr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, one airborne brigade, three air assault brigades, one artillery brigade, two jaeger brigades, three assault regiments of the AFU, two marine brigades, one territorial defence brigade, and three national guard brigades near Vladimirovka, Grishino, Dimitrov, Ivanovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Novonikolayevka, Rodinskoye, Rusin Yar, Sergeyevka, Suvorovo and Torskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 445 troops, five motor vehicles, four artillery guns, including French-made 155-mm Caesar self-propelled artillery systems, Polish-made Krab and Bogdana artillery systems, as well as one electronic warfare station.

liberated Novogrigorovka (Zaporozhye region).

 One mechanised brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigade have been hit close to Verbovoye, Novonikolayevka, Sosnovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), and Malinovka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The enemy lost more than 385 troops, one tank, 17 motor vehicles, four artillery guns, one electronic warfare station, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire radar station.

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

▪️ More than 70 troops, six motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, an electronic warfare station, as well as U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire radar and Israeli-made RADA tactical air surveillance radar stations have been neutralised.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on the traction substation and a rolling stock involved in the AFU units transportation, the infrastructure of the military airfield, assembly workshops and storage areas of unmanned aerial vehicles, a fuel depot, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 141 areas.

🎯 Air defence systems shot down two guided aerial bombs, four U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 218 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

 667 aircraft, 

 283 helicopters, 

 89,163 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

 631 anti-aircraft missile systems,

 25,410 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

 1,598 MLRS combat vehicles, 

 30,280 field artillery guns and mortars, 

 43,469 support military vehicles.

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