KYIV — Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence published the General Staff’s latest estimate of Russian combat losses on October 2, reporting approximately 1,520 personnel, 1,470 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles and 37 artillery systems lost during the previous day.
The figures are official Ukrainian estimates and have not been independently verified by UkraineView.
Daily figures reported by Ukraine
For October 1, the General Staff estimate included 1,520 personnel, seven armored fighting vehicles, six pieces of special equipment, 422 vehicles and fuel tanks, seven unmanned ground vehicles, 37 artillery systems and one multiple-launch rocket system.
The same update listed 1,470 operational-tactical UAVs. No additional tanks, aircraft, helicopters, air-defense systems, cruise missiles, warships, boats or submarines were listed in the daily change.
Cumulative Ukrainian estimate
As of October 2, Ukraine estimated total Russian personnel losses since February 24, 2022 at approximately 1,537,390.
The cumulative figures also included 12,388 tanks, 25,471 armored fighting vehicles, 50,592 artillery systems, 2,175 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,683 air-defense systems, 443 aircraft, 356 helicopters and 542,853 operational-tactical UAVs.
Ukraine’s tally further listed 5,126 cruise missiles, 156,309 vehicles and fuel tanks, 4,780 pieces of special equipment, 2,810 unmanned ground vehicles, 35 warships and boats and two submarines.
How to read the figures
Battlefield casualty and equipment-loss figures are difficult to verify in real time. UkraineView presents these numbers specifically as estimates published by Ukraine’s General Staff through the Ministry of Defence, not as independently established totals.
The Ministry of Defence states that the data are being updated.