Posted on 03/01/2025 6:57:21 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
I don’t care what the numbers are. Loved ones on both sides are dead and their families will never be the same again. I don’t care who started it. Both despicable numbskull leaders are nothing but warmongers and selfish idiots. Russia has the largest land mass in the world so great, Putin wins and can’t get any higher than #1 so give it a break. Z is also a warmonger but must get into costume to pretend to big and bad. Great, give him a Castro look a like trophy and fill it with Barney the Purple Dinosaur videos so he can learn please and thank you is how to behave. Both should be sent to their rooms without supper like the bully little children they are until they can honestly kiss and make up never to do this again.
whether 95K, or especially if 700K - this is the reason Russia will not budge an inch on its war demands
Mediazonia, run by Russian dissent, and the BBC have compiled an accurate estimate of Russian deaths during this war:
https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng-trl
RECORDED NAMES COUNT
95,994
+ 671
23 Feb — 27 Feb
PROBATE REGISTRY ESTIMATE
~ 165K
95,000 is backed up by Mediazone.
This. Well put.
Putin did not foresee the cost in manpower and equipment that this war cost them. Future Russian leaders will think twice before trying to invade Ukraine.
Just a reminder that 95,000 KIAs is just 5 weeks of Soviet (Russian) losses at Stalingrad. That battle lasted 26 weeks.
Also worth noting: many Russians, including members of the military, have Ukrainian roots, ancestry, and relatives to this day. And vice versa. And many Ukrainians are married to Russians.
Current Russian casualty count is 875,610.
Usual assumption of dead to wounded is 1:3 which would give 291,870 Russian dead, but would be much higher, given Russia’s use of meat waves - where 100 troops are sent in waves of 5-6 with the total troops survivors being less than 25.
Worse, wounded troops in non-tenable positions either take a bullet or a grenade because there is no battlefield medical attention. Nor does that figure count LRR/DNR (Ukrainan) troops as the Russian officers used them exclusively in meat waves, but never bother to retrieve their bodies or count them as dead.
Is this the same media who reported the tens of thousands of gazans killed by the IDF? Yeah, right.
1.4m Ukrainian KIA, 2m WIA, 350K deserters.
Jives with Russian MOD. The actual number of Russians ethnicly killed is much less - most of the fighters come from far flung regions to the East of Moscow.
Given that most of the fighting has been small unit tactics, I think this is a believable number. The
“millions” claimed by Ukraine to pump up hopes of keeping financial support, I have never believed.
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