Looks like the Southeast won’t be ‘pacified’ so easily after all.
If they lose 100K dead, that's pretty easy compared to what Iraqis have lost keeping the country together. My guess is that the number will be lower, unless Russia invades. Heck, we lost 5K in Iraq and our territory wasn't even being threatened. If Ukraine loses 5K dead, they will have been very fortunate. Yugoslavia's partition involved 140K deaths out of a population of 24m. If Ukraine's suppression of the separatists ends up with a body count of less than 300K, it will have merely matched the record of the former Yugoslavia.
More specifically, looks like the separatist thugs occupying the Southeast won't be pacified so easily.