European governments estimate Russian military losses in Ukraine during October at levels comparable to figures publicly cited by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Bloomberg reported, referring to assessments it had obtained. The agency did not provide a separate numerical total from the European documents.
On November 1, Zelenskyy said Russian forces had lost 54,400 personnel killed or seriously wounded in October. That figure is a Ukrainian estimate, not an independent calculation by Bloomberg. The methods used for the European estimates and whether they count comparable categories have not been disclosed.