diff --git a/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst b/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst
index 5e9d6a5d..e1621fb4 100644
--- a/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst
+++ b/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ good chance you were not relying on this to begin with".
 **Please read this document in full before upgrading your code to Telethon 2.0.**
 
 
-Pyhton 3.5 is no longer supported
+Python 3.5 is no longer supported
 ---------------------------------
 
 The library will no longer attempt to support Python 3.5. The minimum version is now Python 3.6.
@@ -218,6 +218,14 @@ your handlers much more easily.
 // TODO provide standalone alternative for this?
 
 
+Deleting messages now returns a more useful value
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+It used to return a list of :tl:`messages.affectedMessages` which I expect very little people were
+actually using. Now it returns an ``int`` value indicating the number of messages that did exist
+and were deleted.
+
+
 The aggressive parameter hack has been removed
 ----------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/telethon/_client/messages.py b/telethon/_client/messages.py
index c29610e4..5c073e60 100644
--- a/telethon/_client/messages.py
+++ b/telethon/_client/messages.py
@@ -644,11 +644,13 @@ async def delete_messages(
         ty = helpers._EntityType.USER
 
     if ty == helpers._EntityType.CHANNEL:
-        return await self([_tl.fn.channels.DeleteMessages(
-                        entity, list(c)) for c in utils.chunks(message_ids)])
+        res = await self([_tl.fn.channels.DeleteMessages(
+                entity, list(c)) for c in utils.chunks(message_ids)])
     else:
-        return await self([_tl.fn.messages.DeleteMessages(
-                        list(c), revoke) for c in utils.chunks(message_ids)])
+        res = await self([_tl.fn.messages.DeleteMessages(
+            list(c), revoke) for c in utils.chunks(message_ids)])
+
+    return sum(r.pts_count for r in res)
 
 async def send_read_acknowledge(
         self: 'TelegramClient',