Russia's losses in Ukraine as of April 5: +1,200 troops and 61 artillery systems
Photo: Ukrainian military (facebook com easternforce)
Russian troops sustained another day of high casualties, Ukrainian officials said, with the latest figures pointing to mounting personnel losses and destroyed equipment across the battlefield.
The total Russian combat losses from February 24, 2022, to April 5, 2026, are estimated to be:
- Personnel — approximately 1,303,550 (+1,180);
- Tanks — 11,839 (+4);
- Armored combat vehicles — 24,350 (+6);
- Artillery systems — 39,439 (+61);
- Multiple-launch rocket systems — 1,719 (+3);
- Air defense systems — 1,338;
- Aircraft — 435;
- Helicopters — 350;
- Operational-tactical UAVs — 219,443 (+2,427);
- Cruise missiles — 4,517;
- Ships/boats — 33;
- Submarines — 2;
- Automotive equipment and fuel tanks — 87,355 (+206);
- Special equipment — 4,112 (+3).
(Photo: facebook.com/Ukraine's General Staff)
Frontline situation
The Institute for the Study of War assesses that the front-line situation for Ukraine's Defense Forces is better than it has been since June of last year. Spring weather is also expected to complicate Russian troop movements. It is suggested that Ukrainian counterattacks may have even disrupted Russia's plans for a spring–summer 2026 offensive campaign.
Ukrainian defense forces carried out a series of precision strikes on Russia's air defense positions, destroying a rare radar system from the advanced S-400 complex in the temporarily occupied Feodosiia. Alongside the operation in Crimea, Ukrainian drone operators targeted a Tor surface-to-air missile system in Donbas, while in Luhansk, an airspace control system radar and an anti-aircraft unit based on an MT-LB vehicle were destroyed.
