Russia's losses in Ukraine as of May 4: +1,340 troops and 2 aircraft
Photo: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine updated data on the losses of Russian occupiers in Ukraine (Getty Images)
Ukraine’s Defense Forces eliminated 1,340 Russian occupiers over the past day, as well as downed 2 aircraft, and destroyed 11 tanks and 52 enemy artillery systems, according to the Facebook page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The total combat Russian losses from February 24, 2022, to May 4, 2025, are estimated to be:
- personnel - about 956,810 (+1,340) Russian troops were eliminated;
- tanks - 10,758 (+11);
- troop-carrying AFVs - 22,403 (+24);
- artillery systems - 27,327 (+52);
- MLRS - 1,376 (+1);
- anti-aircraft systems - 1,155 (+1);
- aircraft - 372 (+2);
- helicopters - 335 units;
- UAV operational-tactical level - 34,860 (+163);
- cruise missiles - 3,196;
- warships/boats - 28;
- submarines - 1;
- vehicles and fuel tanks - 47,141 (+129);
- special equipment - 3,870.
Situation at the front and enemy aircraft losses
Situation at the front and enemy aircraft losses
According to the evening report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 3, there were 180 combat clashes at the front since the beginning of the day. The military command also reported that over half of all enemy assaults and attacks were concentrated in just two directions — Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka.
As a reminder, on May 3, it was reported that Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) forces destroyed a Russian Su-30 aircraft using a Magura V5 naval drone near Novorossiysk, Russia. This marked the first time in world history that an aircraft was destroyed by a naval drone.
Later that evening, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that on May 3, Ukrainian forces “brilliantly” downed a Russian military aircraft using a naval drone and destroyed another one with strikes on occupied Crimea.
