Yesterday, a European intel official estimated 7,000 to 9,000 Russian KIA as of a few days earlier:
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss I spoke this afternoon to a senior European intelligence official. The picture shared about what’s happening in Ukraine differs from U.S. government assessments, especially on Russian losses. So let me present (without commentary) what this source said:3:12 PM · Mar 9, 2022·Twitter Web App
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss “From our estimate, the KIA figure on the Russian side was anywhere from 7,000 to 9,000 a few days ago.”3:12 PM · Mar 9, 2022·Twitter Web App
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The Russian government is starting to release names of individual KIAs in the cities they came from, along with posthumous medals but trying not to let the people get a sense of the total number of young Russian men Putin has gotten killed in his grandiose adventure
“The Russian government is starting to release names of individual KIAs in the cities they came from, along with posthumous medals but trying not to let the people get a sense of the total number of young Russian men Putin has gotten killed in his grandiose adventure”
I’m seeing a lot of older Russian men among the dead, too. It would appear that Putin called up some reservists for this adventure in addition to the kids.
I saw a new US estimate of 5000-6000 dead.
So KIA going up significantly.
With wounded 3 times that KIA number.