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Russia averaged nearly 1,000 casualties per day in February, marking a new record, UK intel says
Business Insider ^ | 3 March 2024 | Alia Shoaib

Posted on 03/03/2024 3:53:33 PM PST by Apparatchik

Russian forces suffered an average of 983 casualties per day in Ukraine in February, the highest since the war began, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in an intelligence update on Sunday.

The UK department said the increase in casualties, which included both killed and wounded soldiers, was likely due to "Russia's commitment to mass and attritional warfare."

In February, Russia finally captured the embattled Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, which sits just north of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

War analysts have noted that Russia's tactics to take Avdiivka often involved "human wave" assaults, attempting to overwhelm Ukrainian positions with large numbers of Russian soldiers on foot.

One Ukrainian commander said in January that they could kill 40 to 70 Russian soldiers per day, but they would just send another wave the next day.

"Assault after assault, non-stop," he said.

The UK department said that Russia's tactics were "costly in terms of human life," but it noted that they had increased pressure on Ukrainian positions on the front lines.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously suggested that Russian commanders do not value the lives of their men and that they "conscript corpses."

Russia has likely had 355,000 personnel killed and wounded during the war, the MoD noted.

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To: Apparatchik
Russia has been steadily losing its relative firepower advantage over Ukrainian Forces on many fronts - Artillery, Armor, Attack Helicopters, Long range missiles, On the Sea, and now among front line Air Superiority Fighter jets.

In place of that firepower advantage, they have increasingly had to rely on Light Infantry to achieve what little combat effect they have been able to achieve. That produces higher casualty ratios, and that trend is likely to continue.


21 posted on 03/03/2024 4:35:59 PM PST by BeauBo (PP)
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To: Kaiser8408a
But Zelenskyy/Biden make too much $$$ by fighting on. Like Nikki Haley against Trump.

Excellent analogy.

22 posted on 03/03/2024 4:38:20 PM PST by Allegra (Does this tagline make my brain look smaller? 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 CCCP 2.0…Derp, Derp…)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
It shows how serious they are about this being an existential threat.

No western nation has any interest in invading Russia. NATO is only an "existential threat" if you grant Moscow the right to annex all of Europe and the Balkans, not to mention Finland, a "Putin's Brain" has said they must do.

QUOTES: (via Wikipedia)

"Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad Oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term "Moscow–Berlin axis".[9]"

"France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany, as they both have a "firm anti-Atlanticist tradition".[9]"

"The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.[9]"

"Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be "donated to Murmansk Oblast".[9] "Estonia should be given to Germany's sphere of influence.[9]"

"Latvia and Lithuania should be given a "special status" in the Eurasian–Russian sphere, although he later writes that they should be integrated into Russia rather than obtaining national independence."[9] "Belarus and Moldova are to become part of Russia, not independent."[9]

"Poland should be granted a "special status" in the Eurasian sphere. This may involve splitting Poland between German and Russian spheres of influence.[9]

"Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, "Serbian Bosnia" and Greece – "Orthodox Christian collectivist East" – will unite with "Moscow the Third Rome" and reject the "rational-individualistic West"."[9]

"Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (compromising of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control."[9]

That's just for starters. Complete world domination is the ultimate goal. (Unfortunately the book excerpted appears to be out of print, so I'll be researching alternatives tonight.)

23 posted on 03/03/2024 4:39:39 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Magic Fingers

“Russia is never going to leave.”

They left Kherson. They left Snake Island. They left Kyiv oblast, and Chernihiv, and Sumy and Kharkiv.

Perhaps when Putin is dead, they will leave the rest.


24 posted on 03/03/2024 4:41:15 PM PST by BeauBo (PP)
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To: canuck_conservative
No, only someone stupid would believe the lies of the Biden regime, the Trudeau regime, Deep State and the Ukrainians. And, you believe all four.
25 posted on 03/03/2024 4:41:51 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Apparatchik

If the Ukrainians are doing this well, they don’t anymore money from US taxpayers!


26 posted on 03/03/2024 4:44:39 PM PST by Kazan
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To: BeauBo

Update: Russia is never going to leave Ukraine while Putin is running the show.


27 posted on 03/03/2024 4:45:26 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Apparatchik

I can just imagine

The difficulty

Of the Russian soldiers

Climbing through

The shell shocked trenches

Of babbling uughhkkkkiiiess

Just like

Zeeppers with cocaine brain

Same sex genital retardation

Gog whacko dem usa

MaGog whacko dem nato - un - Vatican

Rev 13


28 posted on 03/03/2024 4:45:32 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: Allegra; AndyJackson; ANKE69; bimboeruption; dforest; doorgunner69; fireman15; MoochPooch; ...
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29 posted on 03/03/2024 4:46:32 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Apparatchik
UK intel says

Trump collusion dosier anyone?

30 posted on 03/03/2024 4:47:43 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Captainpaintball

Well, if a fourth of those were Jon Carry purple heart award level wounds, would you find it more believable?


31 posted on 03/03/2024 4:49:02 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan; Kazan; Magic Fingers
Complete world domination is the ultimate goal

Of course, that's why Russia is still a menace, and why NATO is still needed

And why we need to keep supporting Ukraine


32 posted on 03/03/2024 4:50:25 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Kazan
believe all four.

Believe? he is a paid agent to spout this gibberish. He is a laughing stock font of disinfo. He clearly has a catalog of CIA/MI6 facts and figures to spout whenever challenged and its alwasy the same garbage. It's like the dire warnigns of Tokyo Rose 3 years in long after the collapse of the American empire came and went and still going strong.

It's like the Google AI machine, totally detached from the reality of time and space.

33 posted on 03/03/2024 4:52:15 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: canuck_conservative
canuck_conservative Global War INC keep the cash flowing to the MIC and their little wars around the world oh and don't forget the 10% to the big guy and a little tip for your Candian chaufeur so he can enjoy a nice quiet drink after a hard day at prpogandizing from his keyboard.
34 posted on 03/03/2024 4:54:45 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: canuck_conservative

“And why we need to keep supporting Ukraine”

I don’t trust a single player in that fiasco and the US is bankrupt. I’d opt out if I had a choice.


35 posted on 03/03/2024 4:56:58 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Magic Fingers

“Update: Russia is never going to leave Ukraine while Putin is running the show.”

Update: They left Kherson, while Putin was running the show. They left Snake Island, while Putin was running the show. They left Kyiv oblast, and Chernihiv, and Sumy and Kharkiv, while Putin was running the show.

13 Nations have chosen to join NATO, while Putin was running the show.

Russia has become the most heavily sanctioned country on Earth, while Putin was running the show.

Putin has become a wanted fugitive from the World Court, with a warrant issued for his arrest, while Putin was running the show.

Russia has suffered its worst Military defeats and greatest Military losses since WWII, while Putin was running the show.


36 posted on 03/03/2024 4:58:15 PM PST by BeauBo (PP)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Join and laugh at the humor Zeepers provide!!

They’re extra entertaining today. 😁

37 posted on 03/03/2024 4:59:52 PM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: dforest

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars.

You know, the dawning of the age of Zelensky.


38 posted on 03/03/2024 5:01:07 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Allegra

—> They’re extra entertaining today.

Emotional gymnastics!


39 posted on 03/03/2024 5:04:00 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Allegra

40 posted on 03/03/2024 5:05:44 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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