The battle of Oravais had shown that the Swedish army was not tactically inferior to the Russian counterpart. However, the Swedish strategic situation was hopeless: allied only with Great Britain, it faced the overnight of Napoleon's Europe and its Russian ally. Oravais was merely one battle on the road to final Swedish defeat. The Swedes had lost 740 men in killed, wounded, captured or dispersed while the Russians had lost 121 killed, 665 wounded and 109 missing (presumed to be either killed or captured).