That’s too small of a number. I wish it were bigger.
Not a large butcher’s bill for 2 1/2 years of industrial trench warfare fighting against an alliance with 800 million citizens.
They’re in Dog Patchski.
About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year
Run Away!!
48000 relatives is not necessarily 50000 missing soldiers. There could be 4 or 5 relatives for any given missing soldier. It’s foolish to think that there is a one to one correspondence between the two values.
It is also worth mentioning that Russia is way bigger than Ukraine way more populated and therefore has more people to become soldiers. The Soviet Union was famous for stationing its troops far away from their homes. I suspect many of the missing soldiers went back to their homes without telling anyone. So don’t get your hopes up that Russia is suffering a huge loss of troops in combat. If attrition is the name of the game then Russia is going to win.
I wonder if that number includes non-Russian soldiers like Mercenaries, soldiers from other nations, Wagner group, Russian Navy, merchant marines, ect..
While it’s early, the US had 76K at the end of WWII with 400K dead in the field (obviously no DNA testing). You have to figure that statement suggests about 750k dead, not counting other groups not listed. They could easily be 1.5-2.0 million down since the start of the war including all groups. That’s probably nothing to Russia, given their history, but seems like much for 2-3 years of war and one side.
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Wouldn’t that make total sense as the war is not over so many bidies have not yet been recovered.
Probably millions were “mia” against the germans in ww2 until peacetime.
Ukraine likewise. Not picking a fight on this poibt.
This isn’t unusual for the Russians. Historically they’ve been very callous about informing relatives of a soldier’s death. The Red Army would only send notices to the families of Party members. Being from the Ukraine, you should know this and not gloat about it.