May 8, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense:  Up to 1,525 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

💥 Before the ceasefire came into effect, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Ryzhevka, Pavlovka, Yunakovka, Miropolye, Turya (Sumy region), and Velikiy Burluk (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 215 troops, two tanks, five armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, four field artillery guns, and one ammunition depot.

📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one national guard brigade near Redkodub, Kirovsk, Torskoye, Yampol (Donetsk People’s Republic), Palamarevka, and Kupyansk (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 235 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured fighting vehicle, eight pickup trucks, four artillery guns, including two NATO-made guns, and two electronic warfare stations.

📍 The Yug Group of Forces’ units improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of six mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Serebryanka, Zakotnoye, Aleksandro-Shulgino, Pleshcheyevka, Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Zarya, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 290 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two Canadian-made Senator armoured personnel carriers, five motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.

🚩   As a result of active and decisive operations, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have liberated Troitskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

🔥 Losses were inflicted on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one national guard brigade near Novoolenovka, Ulyanovka, Mirolyubovka, Mikhaylovka, Novaya Poltavka, Novoaleksandrovka, Kotlyarovka, and Alekseyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 510 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made BATT UMG and one Turkish-made Kirpi armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.

↗️  Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Bogatyr, Novoukrainka, Fedorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 195 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, one BM-21 Grad MLRS launcher, and one electronic warfare station.

💥  Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of three mechanised brigades, three coastal defence brigades of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Novodanilovka, Pavlovka, Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), Ilyinka (Dnepropetrovsk region), and Ponyatovka (Kherson region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one artillery gun, one electronic warfare station, and one ammunition depot.

✈️  Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military airfields as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 132 areas.

🎯 Over the past 24 hours, air defence units shot down two U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and one HIMARS MLRS projectile, one Neptune long-range guided missile as well as 182 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

▫️ 662 aircraft,

▫️ 283 helicopters,

▫️ 56,360 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️ 605 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️ 23,226 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️ 1,560 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️ 24,596 field artillery guns and mortars, 

▫️ 35,164 units of support military vehicles.

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