Russia's losses in Ukraine as of September 13: +1,520 troops and 2,142 drones
Photo: Ukrainian military (Getty Images)
Russian forces suffered hundreds of personnel casualties over the past 24 hours, while Ukrainian forces also destroyed or damaged more Russian military equipment across the front, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense reported.
The total Russian combat losses from February 24, 2022, to September 13, 2026, are estimated to be:
- Personnel ‒ nearly 1,506,900 (+1,520)
- Tanks ‒ 12,344 (+2)
- Armored fighting vehicles ‒ 25,330 (+8)
- Special equipment ‒ 4,681 (+5)
- Vehicles and fuel tanks ‒ 148,259 (+410)
- Unmanned ground vehicles ‒ 2,603 (+17)
- Artillery systems ‒ 49,678 (+77)
- MLRS ‒ 2,120 (+5)
- Air defense assets ‒ 1,635 (+2)
- Aircraft ‒ 442 (+1)
- Helicopters ‒ 356
- UAVs (operational-tactical level) ‒ 514,317 (+2,142)
- Cruise missiles ‒ 5,111 (+8)
- Warships and boats ‒ 35
- Submarines ‒ 2
Estimated overall Russian combat losses as of September 13, 2026 (photo: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine)
Frontline situation
Russian forces intensified attacks across several front-line sectors but failed to make confirmed gains, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Ukrainian troops repelled the assaults, while Russian claims of advances in the Kharkiv region were denied, and Ukrainian forces counterattacked near Kupiansk.
Meanwhile, Ukraine launched another large-scale drone attack on Russia overnight, striking the Tolyattikauchuk plant in the Samara region and causing a fire. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that 230 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones were intercepted and destroyed between the evening of September 11 and the morning of September 12.
