What a Blessing this war has been for America: “destroyed more than two-thirds of Russia’s prewar inventory of tanks”
Its too early for this war to end. RuZZia isn’t fully demilitarized yet.
“Russia has suffered more than 600K casualties in Ukraine, US official says”
“Russia has suffered more than 600,000 casualties in the war with Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday.”
“The U.S. official said Russia sustained more casualties in September of this year than at any other point in the war, and explained it was important to disclose the casualties even if it is not a “definitive metric” of success in the conflict.”
“Russia has also lost 32 medium-to-large naval vessels to Ukraine, which has hammered Russian forces in the Black Sea with drones, and “destroyed more than two-thirds of Russia’s prewar inventory of tanks,” according to the U.S. official. Ukraine has also destroyed hundreds of thousands of ammunition rounds in targeted strikes.”
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4924544-russia-casualties-ukraine-us-official/?tbref=hp
“Russia gains ground in Ukraine, but at steep cost”
“Russia has made slow but steady gains in recent weeks against Ukraine but at a steep cost — the bloodiest month in the nearly three-year war, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Casualties from the offensives in the Donbas have brought Russia’s total number of dead and wounded to over 600,000, according to officials granted anonymity to brief reporters at the Pentagon on the course of the war.
The estimate of the casualties — more than 40 times Russia’s losses during its decade-long invasion of Afghanistan in the 1990s — is in line with previous Ukrainian estimates, but tells only part of the story.”
““They have attempted to overcome [Ukrainian] fires with massive maneuver,” a military official said. “If you look at the salient around Pokrovsk the number of Russian forces there is astounding. It’s tens of thousands of forces that they’ve put into that very small area. As you know, when you have that many forces in a very small area … it’s a target rich environment” for the Ukrainians.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/09/russia-ukraine-war-gains-losses-00183149
“Its too early for this war to end. RuZZia isn’t fully demilitarized yet.”
I mourn for the casualties, but Strategically, I must agree.
Russia should lose not only its taste for aggression, but also its capability, for a lasting peace.