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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says 27,000 Ukrainian military dying per month
Official Polish Parliament speech video on youtube ^ | 9/17/27 | Donald Tusk

Posted on 09/17/2026 8:00:00 PM PDT by Mount Athos

"The new Russian strategy, and ...specifically jet powered drones, are leading to much greater losses on the Ukrainian side.

My Ukrainian partners inform me that lately, the monthly death toll has reached 27000...

With this trend, winter in Ukraine could indeed turn out to be catastrophic."


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Quote from time stamp 11:43 in this official Polish parliament video.

This estimate of 27,000 seems consistent with the Ukrainian "Head of the Office of the President" Budanov's insistence that Ukraine must recruit 30,000 soldiers per month. He stated this on video, it was widely reported.

Here is the more full unedited quote:

"The new Russian strategy, and above all, their new technical capabilities, specifically jet powered drones, are leading to much greater losses on the Ukrainian side.

My Ukrainian partners inform me that lately, the monthly death toll has reached 27000, and these are unfortunately, records for this war.

With this trend, winter in Ukraine could indeed turn out to be catastrophic."

1 posted on 09/17/2026 8:00:00 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

At this writing this remarkable quote doesn’t appear to have been covered by the english speaking media anywhere...


2 posted on 09/17/2026 8:02:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

A small price to pay for laundering $250,000,000,000 of payola.


3 posted on 09/17/2026 8:06:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: Mount Athos

So why are all those fighting-age Ukrainian men still partying it up in Warsaw instead of fighting?


4 posted on 09/17/2026 8:12:57 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Mount Athos

I don’t care.

Mass deportations is all I care about.


5 posted on 09/17/2026 8:16:59 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Mount Athos

Confirmed false.
Not 27000 killed. It’s a total of 27000 killed or wounded - according to Tusk.
Russia is three times more. Why? Because the attacker always lose 3 to 1 in best case scenarios during invasions.


6 posted on 09/17/2026 8:20:50 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: USA-FRANCE

You’re wrong in this case.
My quote of the Polish president is accurate.
I posted the official parlimant video.

The quote from his speech in Polish is:

“oinformowali mnie nasi partnerzy z Ukrainy, że ostatnio miesięcznie to jest 27000 zabitych i to są oczywiście”

Translated by google translate:
“Our partners from Ukraine informed me that recently the monthly figure is 27,000 killed, and these are, of course...”

So he did say 27,000 killed, not 27,000 wounded.

It is common for people to say killed when they instead mean killed / wounded/ MIA, so that might be the case here, but the quote is absolutely accurate


7 posted on 09/17/2026 8:29:35 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Tusk is the Prime Minister (Bad Guy)

Karol Nawrocki is the President (Good Guy)


8 posted on 09/17/2026 8:31:08 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Mount Athos; All

typically casualties would be ~3x deaths. So if there are 30k deaths there are 90k casualties per month.

Maybe after this is all done we will get some realistic numbers on both sides.

Zelensky claims 1 million Russian dead.

Well, maybe.

But the USSR had 15,000 deaths in Afghanistan and there were more war protests under USSR Communism than we have seen with this war.


9 posted on 09/17/2026 8:35:24 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Anschluss now !)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Post war analysis will be stunning.


10 posted on 09/17/2026 8:41:39 PM PDT by delta7
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To: Reverend Wright

Yes, Budanov calling for recruiting 30,000 per month is consistent with what you are saying. I agree.


11 posted on 09/17/2026 8:48:03 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Reverend Wright

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83290

“Unfortunately, we have to accept it [mobilization] as it is. We cannot do otherwise,” Budanov said, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

“We have to find the courage and honestly say: we cannot mobilize fewer than 30,000 people a month. This is the minimum number needed to maintain what we have,” he continued.


12 posted on 09/17/2026 8:51:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

This war is indeed horrible. If these casualty reports are true then the carnage must be on the level of WW I or II.Yet unlike prior wars there are virtually no films or pictures in the media or internet that would inform the public of the horror. Usually when people on both sides and others actually view these scenes, the peace process gets serious. Anyone know why there is no coverage of the battles and carnage?


13 posted on 09/17/2026 9:01:55 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Mount Athos

I want to show how dramatically different this estimate is from currently talked about numbers.

The Finnish leader Alexander Stubb cited the CSIS estimate that Ukraine had about 4000 casualties per month in the first 6 months of 2016. (killed + wounded + MIA)

I’m going to assume the Polish leader here meant 27,000 casualties (killed + wounded + MIA) per month for Ukraine, which is 6 times as many a the CSIS estimate.

Of course the numbers aren’t directly comparable, since CSIS was talking only about the monthly rate for the 6 first months of 2026, while Tusk is specifically talking about only the most recent battlefield results.

The sources are dramatically different. CSIS is a think tank with wildly propagandistic numbers. Tusk doesn’t cite such a think tank, instead he sites his sources in the Ukraine government directly.

In any case the difference is that Tusk estimate (for recent battle field results) is 6 times the CSIS estimate (for first 6 months of the year).


14 posted on 09/17/2026 9:40:14 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: allendale

This war is indeed horrible. If these casualty reports are true then the carnage must be on the level of WW I or II.Yet unlike prior wars there are virtually no films or pictures in the media or internet that would inform the public of the horror. Usually when people on both sides and others actually view these scenes, the peace process gets serious. Anyone know why there is no coverage of the battles and carnage

***********************

Because the casualty reports by both sides are bullshit.

Ivan & Sergei have been leaving both shithole countries for years leading up to this war. The war just speeded up an already existing immigration pattern. Now they’re blowing up mostly empty buildings while collecting checks from outsiders.

“Slav meathead vs Slav meathead” with the Western governments being the financial suckers.


15 posted on 09/17/2026 9:44:55 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: unclebankster

It’s their cursed capacity for suffering.


16 posted on 09/17/2026 9:55:53 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Mount Athos

Here is what Tusk actually said:

„Poinformowali mnie nasi partnerzy z Ukrainy, że ostatnio miesięcznie to jest 27 tysięcy zabitych i rannych i to są oczywiście niestety w najsmutniejszym tego słowa znaczeniu rekordy w tej wojnie.”

In English:
“Our partners from Ukraine informed me that recently it has been 27 thousand killed and wounded per month, and these are of course, unfortunately, in the saddest sense of the word, records in this war.”

Absolute PROOF HERE:
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/artykul/3732674,polands-tusk-warns-of-possible-russian-strikes-on-ukraines-allies


17 posted on 09/17/2026 9:58:12 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: USA-FRANCE

I’ve already proven you are incorrect, you can click the video in my link, he said exactly the words I cited.


18 posted on 09/17/2026 9:59:14 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: USA-FRANCE
Why? Because the attacker always lose 3 to 1 in best case scenarios during invasions.

Really? So you think the US suffered 3X the losses of the Iraqis in Desert Storm, or in overrunning Afghanistan?

The 3X rule is a vague rule of thumb for apples-to-apples forces. It doesn't account for Lanchester's Square Law involving forces of disproportionate size, nor for force multipliers from technological, strategic, operational or other advantages.

Russian superiority in everything from artillery stockpiles to FABs to advanced drones strongly suggests they hold a kill ratio advantage, and the slow, methodical pace of their advances reduces exposure to high casualty events. Also seen in the corpse and prisoner exchanges. Ukraine has long displayed signs of extreme stress in their aggressive recruiting/impressment/kidnapping campaigns, the way their soldiers are largely middle-aged or elderly, and now the news of their planning large-scale conscription of women. Russia shows no sign of general stress in their recruiting.

With the new focus on drafting women Ukraine might keep fighting another year or two, but at that point the recruiting options really will be running on empty.

19 posted on 09/17/2026 9:59:22 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Mount Athos

They will mobilize women soon.

And once the Brussels ghouls have thrown all their Ukraine eggs at the Russian brick wall and no slavs are left there, they will re-populate Ukraine with Africans and Arabs.


20 posted on 09/17/2026 10:38:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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