Russia’s ‘irrecoverable losses’ in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL

Meduza ^ | Oct.12, 2022

[Salohcin]

More than 90,000 troops make up Russia’s “irrecoverable” military losses in Ukraine, as reported by the Russian media project iStories (or Vazhnye Istorii). One of the two sources of this information works in the FSB; the other is a former state security officer. [Emphasis added.]

“Irrecoverable losses” is a category that includes servicemen who were killed, went missing, died from their wounds or were disabled and cannot return to military service.

This new estimate is close to the figures stated earlier by the Pentagon and the British Defense Ministry. Last August, the Pentagon estimated that 70–80 thousand Russian troops had been killed or critically wounded since the start of the war. In September, the British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace stated that the Russian army’s total losses exceeded 80,000; of those, about 25,000 were thought to have been killed.

• Since the start of the invasion, the Russian Defense Ministry accounted for casualties only three times. The last time this happened was September 21, when the Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed in the war.

• Mediazona and BBC News Russian have published a joint report of Russia’s war casualties, based on official documentation available through open sources. 7,184 documented deaths were the minimal toll as of October 7, based on open-source information.

• The Ukrainian military’s General Staff states that, as of the morning of October 12, 63,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine.

[kiryandil]

Damn, I thought it was 900,000 Russian casualties and 5,400 Ukrainian casualties.

No one is left alive in RuZZia.

[kiryandil]

90,000 effectives equate to about ten divisions, which is a heck of a lot of soldiers to lose in a war of seven months. Add in support equipment (tanks, trucks, etc.) and this has been awfully expensive for Russia.

In addition to the RuZZians shelling their own men in the liberated nuclear power plant, blowing up their own gas pipelines and bombing their own bridge, they've been shelling their own men on the front lines mercilessly.

    

[Rappini]

I wonder how 90K troops stack up against what Pootie lost in Afstan?

[PIF]

Your should say that upfront, else it is misleading - there’s too much of that as it is.

[DoughtyOne]

Just remember folks. All those reports of Russian casualties
have been pure propaganda.

The additional sought after 300,000 new troops doesn’t mean
a thing.

Hey, look over there... La la la la la la la...

[TangoLimaSierra]

Your information operations campaign might have a little more credibility if you acknowledged at least the most obvious of Russia’s reverses. As it is it is much too ham fisted to be believable.

Exactly what you Zelbots constantly post. No Russian victory...ever! No minor skirmish goes the way of the Russians. Everything is a glorious Uke victory or an Russki atrocity. Freaking sad you don't even recognize your own propagandizing. No credibility at all.

[Salohcin]

We are just following how the battle lines are changing. I have no idea what you are following.