Posted on 08/08/2022 7:26:35 PM PDT by BeauBo
The U.S. Defense Department believes that as many as 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine less than six months ago, a top Pentagon official told reporters today...
The United States has now provided nearly $10 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, nearly twice Kyiv’s military budget in 2021...
The Pentagon initially estimated that Russia deployed about 120 battalion tactical groups, the Kremlin’s go-to combined arms unit, for the war—numbering around 100,000 troops. Experts said the new casualty estimate is likely to include Russian paramilitary and volunteer forces, such as the mercenary Wagner Group, some units of which have been redeployed from posts in Libya, Syria, and the Central African Republic to fight on the front lines in the Donbas region...
U.S. officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is reluctant to order a general mobilization that would allow the Kremlin to recruit from the population at large... Russia has succeeded in recruiting enough volunteers to continue the conflict through a shadow mobilization drive by relying more heavily on the Wagner Group, volunteer units, and reservists that signed contracts under a revamped system.
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
If you believe the propaganda god help you . Do you believe all the bs you see on the propaganda tube? I’m assuming you got all your booster shots. Russia might be run by an evil bastard but our country is run by worse.. Putin doesn’t promote hate against white people and families and unborn babies. Maybe your rooting for the wrong side ? I’m pretty sure the American military fought 2 wars for no reason and murdered millions of innocent poor brown people. Russia didn’t .
“The US had over 86,000 casualties in Vietnam in 1967.”
That was over a year, at the height of the war, not the first six months.
By that point in the Vietnam War, Russia and China were sending 300 tons of weapons and supplies per day down the Ho Chi Mihn Trail. Over 15,000 Soviet and 300,000 Chinese communists were serving in North Vietnam, including piloting combat aircraft against American forces. Thousands of howitzers had been provided, and millions of Artillery rounds.
The United States blocked the supply of Himars MLRS to Ukraine, according to the Avia portal.
Until the end of this month, the United States will not supply new multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine. According to sources, the reason for this was certain circumstances identified by the American side, in particular, we can talk about the losses of six Himars MLRS, which the Russian side had previously announced.
Cyberspec News
The United States believes that Ukraine already has enough Western multiple launch rocket systems of the HIMARS type
Therefore, they will only supply ammunition to the remaining systems, the White House said.
“The Soviet Union didn’t take this many casualties in the ‘80s in Afghanistan and they had the twice the population of modern day Russia.”
Russia has already had more killed in the Ukraine, thatn the Soviet Union did in a decade in Afghanistan. The Soviet Military was four times the size of Russia’s today. The Warsaw Pact Countries (like Poland and Lithuania) were on the Soviet Union’s side in Afghanistan, but they are among Russia’s most determined opponents in the Ukraine.
SpeedyinTexas had a good observation about reports of a potential 100,000 North Koreans going to fight in the Ukraine.
Something along the lines of “Have they already gone through the 100,000 Syrians, and 100,000 Libyans?”
As you point out, other Countries like North Korea have their own problems. Nobody wants to send thousands of their people and billions of their dollars up in smoke for Russia’s problems.
The Ukraine has G7 and NATO support. Russia has China ready to buy some of their oil or assets at fire sale prices, and maybe offer a bit of lip service.
Russia has to buy any friends it might get, at premium prices. No freebies.
Did they contribute troops to the war in Afghanistan?
ASB Military News
Pentagon: “Russia has 70.000-80.000 military casualties since the start of the operation.”
Casualties meaning killed and injured, so that means 20.000 killed & 4x that number of injured if were being generous.
20.000 deaths is an insane number. That is something you can’t hide. That means hundreds of corpses rotting all over Ukraine. That means endless trucks of bodies travelling between Ukraine and Russia. That means Russian graveyards working nonstop— all the stuff we see from the Ukrainian side. Huge funerals, huge amounts of graves on pictures and huge trucks transporting bodies. — none of that was spotted in Russia. Not even once. Russia has over 145 million people. Not one person has filmed it? 🤔
Source; Pentagon’s propaganda department.
The realistic number, if you’re generous is 10.000-15.000 deaths amongst LPR, DPR and Russian forces combined & 35-40k injured. No way Russia has taken 80k casualties. The rotation of troops to keep 200k active in Ukraine with 80k casualties would be impossible to hide from social media. All we’ve seen were small rotational convoys.
“The U.S. Defense Department believes....”
All I needed to read right there.
Says everything.
This is from a mouthpiece for the clowns who left 85 billion dollars worth of military hardware lying around in Afghanistan.
More globalist propaganda.
Zinc, huh?
Must not be a huge need for coffins, otherwise they would be making them out of wood... Or even cardboard.
Thank you. Everybody, in the flush of Russia’s own propaganda, seems to have forgotten that the predecessor state of today’s Russia supplied the weapons and the training to kill thousands of Americans in Korea and Vietnam. And we didn’t threaten to unleash Armageddon on them.
“Did they (Warsaw Pact) contribute troops to the war in Afghanistan? ”
I don’t think so (not sure) - but they certainly did not provide support to the other side, like they are now to the Ukraine.
Thanks, that’s very interesting and informative.
Russia’s artillery advantage is so large, there’s no way they lost that number of forces.
Ukraine has taken huge losses. Nearly 200 thousand and recently the numbers have escalated dramatically......
The propaganda department needs to catch up......
WHY did CBS DELETE its report that “barely any” U.S. weapons had reached the Ukrainian armed forces, after Kiev complained? I guess they accidently discovered the black market re-sale operation.
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source in the OP said that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front, due to the advance of Russian troops and the lack of artillery from our military. On the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lose up to 300 soldiers killed and 500 wounded, which is already getting used to losses during the defense of Severodonetsk.
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