If the losses are as bad as they say they are, then a lot or wives and mothers who are missing their loved ones will be missing them forever.
They fought in Afghanistan for ten years and lost 14,453 soldiers... Apparently, they’ve lost seven times that amount since the start of this conflict. That’s a lot of widows without their husbands and mothers without their children.
The last figure I saw was close to 375,000 lost Russians. That is closer to 23 times the 10 year Afghan losses, and in fewer than 2 years. At the rate they are being lost, around 800 a day, they should reach 400,000 by Feb. 24.