100 tanks lost in past 9 days. That sounds like a beating.
“100 tanks lost in past 9 days. “
To say that in Ukrainian is “LotsAJaveleninskis”.
Russians need to take a big beating so it’s better that the war continues. Not the best thing to say but think of Iran/Iraq in the 80’s. Japan was doing better than Germany at that time-economically. It was because Germany was not destroyed enough in WW2 like Japan. Japan started all over.
The world needed us after WW2. That’s why the 50’s were so innocent.
Casualty is a broad term that is anyone taken out of the fight.
498 deaths and 1,597 wounded.
Like us, they notify next a kin of the death and their numbers are probably far more accurate than the BS circulating around where they are talking about 5,000 or more...
At least 2,870 Ukrainian troops have been killed and more than 3,500 wounded. The Ukrainians dispute this. However, the Ukrainians are not in control of their numbers, i.e. they don't even know themselves what they have lost.
Not sure how this (while on the offense) is taking a beating for the Russians.
The Russians will position themselves such that the terms of an agreement will be to their favor. It's a chess game. No one wants Ukraine destroyed, not the Ukraine, Russia or US/EU. Realize, while these casualties sound horrible, you would have seen numbers like this in the first hour or two had the Russians gone in with full force. Never was it Russia's intention to take and hold land in the West. Only in the East where you have ethnic Russians and broad support for them anyhow.