Russian losses on Oct. 28, 2025 include 1060 personnel, tanks, aircraft, UAVs, artillery, etc.
Executive summary
Ukrainian official tallies reported roughly 1,137,850–1,139,900 total Russian personnel losses by late October 2025 and listed 1,060–1,150 personnel losses specifically on October 28–29, 2025 (General Staff/Facebook numbers cited by Mezha and related outlets) [1] [2]. Those daily tallies were published alongside detailed equipment counts — tanks, AFVs, artillery, UAVs and aircraft — that Ukrainian sources say rose on that date [1] [2].
1. What the October 28–29 tallies actually say — Ukrainian General Staff numbers
Ukraine’s General Staff posts daily cumulative loss tallies on social media that independent aggregators republish; the October 28 entry compiled by those aggregators records total Russian combat losses at about 1.137–1.139 million and adds a single‑day figure of roughly 1,060–1,150 personnel lost on Oct. 28–29 [1] [2]. These reports also list incremental equipment losses that day — small increases in counts of tanks (+4–6), AFVs (+3–28 depending on the bulletin), artillery systems (+8–20), operational‑tactical UAVs (+108–313 in different outlets’ snapshots) and other categories [1] [2].
2. How to read “personnel losses” in these datasets
Ukrainian daily figures combine killed, wounded, missing and captured into a single “personnel losses” aggregate; reporting outlets quote the General Staff’s cumulative number rather than an independently verified killed‑in‑action count [2] [1]. The sources provided do not break the Oct. 28 single‑day figure into killed vs wounded vs missing in those cited posts — they report a single aggregate for the 24‑hour period [1] [2].
3. Equipment counts: incremental changes and cumulative tallies
The October 28 reports pair the personnel tally with incremental increases across many equipment categories: tanks, armored fighting vehicles, artillery systems, MLRS, air defense systems, aircraft, helicopters, and large numbers of operational‑tactical UAVs and automotive vehicles — for example, Mezha reproduces daily increases of +6 tanks and +108 tactical drones on Oct. 28 [1]. These numbers are presented as cumulative totals “from Feb. 24, 2022” to the date cited, with the daily change listed in parentheses [1] [2].
4. Sources, provenance and competing estimates
These specific daily figures originate from the Ukrainian General Staff’s social media posts and are republished by aggregators such as Mezha and Ukrainska Pravda; those outlets explicitly attribute the numbers to the General Staff or its Facebook page [2] [1] [3]. Other organizations and media produce markedly different totals: for example, the leaked I Want to Live/Ministry of Defense‑adjacent dataset cited by ISW and others gave a much larger 2025 eight‑month Russian loss figure earlier in October, and investigative trackers such as Mediazona and the named‑list projects document tens of thousands of verified individual Russian deaths that do not directly map to the General Staff’s aggregate dynamics [4] [5] [6]. RBC‑Ukraine and other outlets publish still different aggregated ranges up to well over 900,000–1.4 million for 2025 overall, reflecting different methods and sources [7].
5. Limitations and what the sources do not show
Available sources do not provide independent, verifiable battlefield casualty audits for Oct. 28 that separate killed from wounded or confirm unit‑level losses via on‑the‑ground body counts (not found in current reporting). The General Staff’s aggregate daily numbers are not independently verifiable within these cited pages; independent databases (named lists, probate records, leaked internal Russian figures) use different definitions and time windows and therefore produce divergent totals [6] [5] [4].
6. Why tallies differ: agenda, methodology and operational context
Differences among tallies reflect clear methodological and political drivers in the sources: Ukrainian official updates aim to demonstrate battlefield effect and sustain domestic/international support and therefore publish cumulative tallies [2] [1]; leaked Russian internal tallies published via third parties emphasize catastrophic Russian internal attrition [5]; investigative outlets compiling named lists verify individual deaths by name and therefore yield lower but more rigorously verified death counts [6]. ISW and other analysts caution about interpreting equipment loss rates versus territorial gain — they note vehicle losses can be “disproportionately high compared to limited gains” in mechanized assaults [8].
7. Bottom line for readers
The claim that “Russian losses on Oct. 28, 2025 include 1,060 personnel and associated tanks, aircraft, UAVs, artillery, etc.” is consistent with Ukrainian General Staff daily aggregate postings as republished by Mezha and others, which list ~1,060–1,150 personnel lost that 24‑hour period plus small equipment increases [1] [2]. Those figures are official Ukrainian tallies and are one of several competing public estimates; they should be understood as cumulative, aggregated operational figures rather than independently audited, disaggregated counts of killed vs wounded versus missing [1] [2] [6].