Putin used them as cannon fodder.
Posted on 11/18/2022 6:00:04 PM PST by Timber Rattler
In nine months of brutal fighting, the army of the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region has buried or sent to the hospital as many men as it had in its entire pre-war army.
The separatist DPR began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine in February with around 20,000 men in six light infantry brigades. By November, the army had lost 3,746 killed in action and 15,794 wounded in action, according to the DPR’s ombudsman.
That’s 19,540 KIAs or WIAs. While many of the wounded undoubtedly returned to front-line service, many didn’t. And yes, the DPR army has expanded over the course of the nine-month wider war through the forced mobilization of thousands of men from the separatist state’s 2.3 million population.
But even if the DPR army doubled in size, losing half its ultimate manpower is still catastrophic.
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Russian leaders seem to view DPR men as cannon fodder. “They don't count us, they leave us,” one drunk Donetsk fighter complained in a video that went viral in August. “But I want to live."
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Putin used them as cannon fodder.
Russia would kill their own men who are in the way during World War II went just because they felt like it
Are you pure communist?
A different one said he would prefer global nuclear war to letting Russia have an inch of land.
He's a fabulist buffoon:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/davidaxe/index
Anyone else would be embarrassed to post fabulism by Axe - but not our pet Ukie troll/dedicated NeverTrumper "Timber Toddler".
Wait'll he gets going with the hitpieces on Trump presently.
Forbes?
FORBES?
Owned by the ChiComs?
Only an idiot would consider that to be a reliable source.
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Thank you!
If Forbes is owned by the ChiComs, as you claim, then why are its stories not favorable to Comrade Putin or the Russians?
Is statistical killing especially painful?
Multiple one worlder goals are on the table with the current fiasco.
One being the extermination of white european men.
The Putin BoyZ come up with the strangest accusations for anyone not Gaga over Pootie Poot.
Neo-con, Never Trumper, etc. etc. etc.
I don’t waste my time explaining anything to potatoes.
Those of that Objectively see Putin in an unwinnable quagmire, support Bush, the WEF, Drag Queen Story hour and the LBGTQII2+ Agenda, because Russian Artillery, meatgrinders. and the Russians are going to lay seige to Odessa any minute now.
I highly reccomend they “Yeah Russia!” crowd go back in their history 50-100 pages and read what they wrote FR in April, May, June, July and see how NONE of what the people they were listening to, panned out.
What’s up with the childish name calling? I’d think the discussion would be a step above the Twitter brigade given the seriousness of the issue. Perhaps not.
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