It's weird, because you and I usually agree 100% on most everything else.
We differ on just this single topic.
Of course, I believe that the Western Media and the Ukrainians are lying about their casualties, and are hiding enormous losses on their side.
Mr Zelensky said on Sunday [Feb 25, 2024] that he was providing an updated death toll in response to the inflated figures that Russia has quoted. "31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in this war. Not 300,000 or 150,000, or whatever Putin and his lying circle are saying. But each of these losses is a great loss for us."
Perhaps the factor that separates us is that everything I post about Russia and Ukraine is informed by my lifelong obsession with reading books, rather than watching videos and absorbing snippets of internet propaganda. Not to mention my rejection of television, which I haven't owned one since 1977. Warped my entire life, that has. And I GTFO of Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor) in 2009, which eliminated another source of distorted thinking.