Posted on 03/09/2024 4:27:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Satellite pictures capturing the massive expansion of Russian military cemeteries prove the “huge cost” of the Ukraine war for Moscow’s army, according to experts.
The “startling” pictures show cemeteries linked to elite units such as the Guards Airborne Division, the Guards Motorised Division and the Wagner Mercenary group have all grown substantially in size since the invasion began in February 2022.
Although Russia does not provide a death toll for its soldiers, the pictures – provided by Maxar Technologies and obtained by The Telegraph and National Security News – add weight to Western estimates of significant losses.
Images of just one section of Moscow’s Tula cemetery, for example, show the numbers of graves have roughly quadrupled between October 2021 and April 2023.
The nearby Bogorodskoye cemetery has had a whole new section added during that time, apparently tripling its size.
Both are near Ryazan, in western Russia, where units of the 106th Guards Airborne Division are based, according to Maxar, a private US-based satellite company.
Troops from that division took part in the opening battles of the war in Ukraine and also later fought in operations in the Bakhmut area along with Wagner forces.
Western intelligence estimates suggest that as many as 20,000 Russian troops could have been killed in the fight for Bakhmut.
Col Philip Ingram, a former British Army intelligence officer and Nato planner, described the images as “startling”.
They show “the huge price Russian conscripts are paying”, he said.
“I am not surprised at the clear growth in cemeteries near bases as Russia is losing more than 900 troops a day at the moment for minimal territorial gains.
“The Russian losses in the battle for Avdiivka, where over 16,000 of their soldiers died are testament to that.”
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This is true.
Per Monty Python, sometimes you want an argument but you get abuse instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc
Wrong again.
Russia's Igor Strelkov: I Am Responsible for War in Eastern Ukraine
"I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war," Strelkov said in an interview published Thursday with Russia's Zavtra newspaper, which espouses imperialist views.
"If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa," Strelkov, who uses that nom-de-guerre meaning "Shooter" to replace his last name Girkin, was quoted as saying.
"There would have been several dozen killed, burned, detained. And that would have been the end of it. But the flywheel of the war, which is continuing to this day, was spun by our unit. We mixed up all the cards on the table," he said.
Other news, Vlad destroys four more US Patriot systems….three confirmed by geo-located video… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxU_f52qwzM
Good news proving our Founding Father’s once again correct- “ Do not get entangled in foreign wars”…..kinda embarrassing that our most expensive, wonder weapons are getting whacked, by a country that is just one big gas station……
The Gaza cemeteries must also be expanding rapidly - if the death toll is really over 30,000.
Thanks! Lol, that’s a personal favorite. That one and the one with the penguin on the telly still play in my head verbatim.
What Chasov Yar doink?
Metrosexual diversity
Is a hard sell
Around the world
Gog decay usa
MaGog decay nato
Rev 13
You’re welcome.
I’m also a fan of the parrot and Spam.
“Here we have Christians killing each other in great numbers over relatively minor things.”
Russia wanting to conquer and to end Ukraine as a nation and as a people is not a minor thing to the Ukrainians.
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