Both sides are claiming ridiculously high casualties for the other side, and low for themselves.
I don’t trust either.
Exactly, There are no classic “ war correspondents / embeds” like the US allowed in Desert Storm. Neither side wants any foreign journalists/intelligence to interfere with the propaganda that is being put out. And the traditional neutral countries ie.. Sweden/Switzerland are supporting NATO so the Russians won’t let their citizens near the battle zone. At the end , people will wonder how the press got it so wrong. It’s because the modern clickbait/ad revenue generators never studied the role of journalists and the press in a free society. They used to be called the Fourth Estate, because they acted as the shadow fourth branch of our government, whose job was to keep everyone honest. Now the libtard professors teach activism as the most important thing you can do in any field of endeavor. Which is how you end up with scientists saying “ No virus from a lab in Wuhan”, without any research or investigation. And the press prints it without doing it’s old job, Which would have been to write an editorial that says basically, these guys might have credentials, but the way they arrived at their conclusion was bullshit and both disingenuous and stupid. Much like debating casualties in Ukraine without any credible data.
Reminiscent of the US military reporting weekly “body counts” from Vietnam. If their numbers had all been real, there wouldn’t have been many VC or NVA left standing.