The Donetsk Separatist Army Went To War In Ukraine With 20,000 Men. Statistically, Almost Every Single One Was Killed Or Wounded.

Forbes ^ | November 18, 2022 | David Axe

[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.

(snip)

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."

[PAR35]

For comparison purposes:

The US went into World War II with an army of 2.2 million. Casualties totaled 565,861.

[WMarshal]

Your propaganda reeks of desperation. Sad.

Pooty Poot is turning off the lights in the Ukraine.

[WMarshal]

nickcarraway, are you pure communist neocon?

[minnesota_bound]

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Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished.

[nickcarraway]

In that case the enemy killed those men, right? Russians killed their own nen.

[nickcarraway]

I am not a neocon, but I don’t think that word has any meaning anymore. But I’m not a globalist warmonger anti-American like you.

[nickcarraway]

If you think communist countries are better than the United States then why don’t you move there?

[cranked]

“Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war”
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukraine-veterans-us-aid-soldiers-war/

“A Ukrainian’s Letter from the Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94RYVNg9bfA

‘Ukrainian General estimates Kiev’s losses at hundreds of thousands since Feb’
https://tass.com/politics/1501881

‘UKRAINIAN BATTLE LOSSES REVEALED’
https://seemorerocks.is/ukrainian-battle-losses-revealed/

“Wounded Ukrainian soldiers reveal steep toll of Kherson offensive - ‘We lost five people for every one they did’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/07/ukraine-kherson-offensive-casualties-ammunition/

‘In Ukraine’s South, Fierce Fighting and Deadly Costs’
https://archive.ph/MtHyd#selection-383.0-383.52

“Kharkov Offensive: “You Can Always Regain Territory—You Cannot Regain Human Lives.” - Jacques Baud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6GFaOQOpEs

“The Limits of Ukraine’s Offensive and the High Price to Pay When it Ends”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pONjlORXdFQ

“The irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of October 20, 2022 amounted to 402,000 people , of which 387,000 were killed...”
https://t.me/nologica/5535

“War and Regrets in Ukraine - at least 400,000 Ukrainian battlefield casualties including 100,000 soldiers killed in action”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/war-and-regrets-in-ukraine/

‘Putin: losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reach the ratio of one to seven or one to eight’
https://ria.ru/20221027/vsu-1827349540.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

“Only 1 out of 13 Ukrainian Servicemen Survives. They Even Do Not See Russians, just Sea of Fire”
https://rumble.com/v1molmc-only-1-out-of-13-ukrainian-servicemen-survives.-wokenato-even-do-not-see-ru.html

“The average lifespan of a Ukrainian mobilized recruit now is approximately 10 days — from the time he is grabbed off the street to the time he falls on the battlefield.
Foreign mercenaries—which by and large have become regular Polish and Romanian (and other NATO countries’) troops masquerading as “volunteers” — loath the idea of being used as cannon fodder and behave as regular colonial expeditionary forces.”
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/17146

Ukrainian military expert, Oleg Zhdanov, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have nothing to attack Kherson
“The Ukrainian army is suffering huge losses. There is a shortage of personnel, insufficiently mobilized, a shortage of military equipment.
https://twitter.com/SprinterMonitor/status/1585241881604403202

[Cronos]

Pooptin has been trying to do that for months now. Each time the Ukrainians get the lights back up in a few days to a couple of weeks

[Cronos]

Nick is neither communist nor a neocon.

[jmacusa]

The true number of Americans killed in WW2 has never actually been tabulated but some figures put it at around 407,000.

[PIF]

one has to cast doubt on the numbers here as the DNR/LNR are both run by Russian officers, not known for their truthfulness. Case in point: the officers sent the DNR/LNR troops on frontal charges, aka suicide attacks, against well fortified UA positions, they were slaughtered, and their bodies left were they lay rotting. They were never counted or accounted for - no one cared.

At some point, much later, if the UA had taken the ground, UA took the bodies away for burial. One has to suppose that if the UA did not take the ground, the bodies were bulldozed into mass graves bu Russian forces.

20,000 casualties is just a starter. DPR’s ombudsman: who only says what he’s told to say by the Russians.

[PIF]

407,000 is as close as one can get, given that bodies are not always in one piece and some were not even that ‘together’, if they were even found. Of the 407,000, the number of Army AF that were killed was 80,000.

[Feckless]

There are Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

[kearnyirish2]

That was a great book; read it years ago.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

yes,they each died twice after eating dog
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go troll elsewhere

[jdsteel]

You must be new to the discussions about any article regarding the Russian/Ukraine war and the avid Putin supporters remarks and responses.

[UNGN]

At least since Russia started retreating enmass, Vodka infused commie BobL is isn’t ranting daily about the superiority of the Russian Army (not over Ukraine’s Army of software programmers and VW factory workers, but ALL armies).

[jmacusa]

The largest loss of American life in WW2 was during the Normandy Campaign from June 1944 though to the end of August ‘44. Some 29,000 men were killed, wounded or captured.

Have you ever been to the WW2 Memorial in DC?

I have. It’s beautiful.

[PIF]

Normandy Campaign from June 1944

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Fun fact: In the Normandy landing in the first hour, 4,000 men were killed.