The Russians and Austrians have lost about fifteen thousand men (approximately five thousand killed), although some sources suggest a slightly higher number, perhaps fifteen thousand six hundred or fifteen thousand seven hundred, about twenty-six percent.

Christopher Duffy places Russian losses at thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven; in addition, the Russians had lost about four thousand at the Battle of Kay a week earlier.

Sources differ on Prussian losses.

Duffy maintains six thousand killed and thirteen thousand wounded, a casualty rate of more than thirty-seven percent.

Gaston Bodart represents losses at thirty-nine percent, and that two thirds (twelve thousand) of the nineteen thousand casualties were deaths.

Following the battle, the victorious Cossack troops plunder corpses and slit the throats of the wounded; this no doubt contributes to the death rate.

The Prussians have lost their entire horse artillery, an amalgam of cavalry and artillery in which the crews ride horses into battle, dragging their cannons behind them, one of Frederick's notable inventions.

The Prussians have also lost sixty percent of their cavalry, killed or wounded, animals and men.

The Prussians have lost one hundred and seventy-two of their own cannons plus the one hundred and five that they had captured from the Russians in the late morning on the Mühlberge.

They have also lost twenty-seven flags and two standards.

Staff losses are significant.

Frederick has lost eight regimental colonels.

Of his senior command, Seydlitz is wounded and had to relinquish command to Platen, nowhere near his equal in energy and nerve; Wedel is wounded so badly that he will never fight again; Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer, commander of the Puttkamer Hussars, lies among the dead.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, later the inspector general and major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, had been wounded at the battle.

Ewald Christian von Kleist, the famous poet of the Prussian army, had been badly injured in the latter moments of the assault on the Walkeberge.

By the time he was injured, Major Kleist was the highest ranking officer in his regiment.

Generalleutnant August Friedrich von Itzenplitz will die of his wounds on September 5, Prince Charles Anton August von Holstein-Beck on September 12, and Finck's brigade commander, Generalmajor George Ernst von Klitzing, on October 28 in Stettin.

Prussia is at its last gasp and Frederick despairs of preserving much of his remaining kingdom for his heir.