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Re: "Russian dead and missing are about 700,000..."

I find numbers like this very hard to believe.

That would require 480 dead - every day - for four years.

Plus, another 480 hospital necessary wounded - every day.

You would need 700,000 military police just to maintain discipline and fill the monthly draft quota.

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Try 100,000 dead in 2022, 150,000 in 2023, and 225,000 each in 2024 and 2025. Drones really are that deadly. The Russians have suffered MORE than 1 dead per 1 wounded in the past two years.

Ukraine started out with World War Two levels of 3 wounded per 1 dead in 2022, improved that to 5 wounded to 1 dead in 2023, and then their wounded to dead ratio started dropping in 2024 as the numbers of Russian drones soared. Repeat, drones are far, far more lethal than artillery, mortars and small arms. Most casualties overall since 2023 have been inflicted by drones.

Plus there is effectively no Russian battlefield medical care in winters, and not much even in summer. Russian battlefield medical care throughout this war has been far below its World War Two standards.