Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War
KEYWORDS: 106thweek; 180000deadrussians; 300000deadukrainians; 3rdyear; admissionoffailure; aliashoaib; angryeurotrash; angryrussostooges; avdiivkakadabra; bobomaximus; businessinsider; commiemaximus; dailydeathfap; disinformationspam; foreigntrolltrash; fraud; ghostofkiev; ghostofkiev2; ghoulishdelight; globohomo; goatsofkiev; gtfofreurotrolls; howsavdiivkadoing; hunkamaximus; killkillkillforpeace; maplesyrup; ohnoavdiivka; propaganda; propagandaspam; putinsblunder; samhyde; slavaspamma; spambug; spammalamadingdong; spammonkey; spampimp; stolenvlor; usafrance; whahappenavdiivka; zeepercreepers; zeeperfap; zeeperpr0n; zeepersjustwannazeep; zeeperslovedeath; zeeperslovevindman; zeepersworshipdeath; zeepydeeday; zeepydeedoodah
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-115 next last
To: House Atreides

No, I want Canada out of NATO, yesterday !


81 posted on 03/03/2024 9:02:33 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Apparatchik
Anyone who thinks Russia is losing this war needs to look at some swampland I have for sale.

And, American contract forces have been fighting over in Ukraine for two years now. So yeah, we have "boots on the ground."

82 posted on 03/03/2024 9:15:07 PM PST by eastexsteve
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HamiltonJay

Putin may have attacked in 2022 anyway even if Trump was President. He would have used his friendship with Trump as an opportunity to attack Ukraine.


83 posted on 03/03/2024 9:18:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

He may have but unlikely. Trump would have not been whispering sweet nothing in Z’s ear that he could win.. the west wanted this conflict that’s the sick part about it all.

They actively egged Z on..

I don’t for one minute believe Trump administration would have played Z like thr fool he is to create a war.


84 posted on 03/03/2024 9:26:05 PM PST by HamiltonJay ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: Reverend Wright
Dugin does not speak for Putin on this.

Other way 'round. That Putin acts according to Dugin is more likely. Certainly the long paragraph on Ukraine fits that mold.

Judging by some comments coming from other Moscovite power players, they are mighty close to Dugin's "teachings". (Hence the claim that Putin is a "moderate".)

Do not fail to listen to your enemy.....

85 posted on 03/03/2024 9:26:15 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: Chad C. Mulligan

“That Putin acts according to Dugin is more likely.”

Not a chance.

Giving back Kaliningrad is absolutely a non-starter.

Dugin is an academic. Putin doesn’t “act according to him” any more than Trump acts in obedience to Patrick Deneen.


86 posted on 03/03/2024 9:43:17 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: bimboeruption

There are many and not hard to find, even for the putinstoogeruption.


87 posted on 03/03/2024 10:03:20 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: Reverend Wright; All
IF Russia really is willing to take 1000 casualties a day as this report claims, they are not going to shy away from a WW2 scale “Displaced Persons” strategy to make sure that the remaining population isn’t an insurgency risk.
Thanks for making clear the ruZZians are Nazis. The people who fled Putin's Terror Invasion are obviously not the battle hardened veterens I posted of. Any displacement of population will help cement ruZZia as a Terror State and put them in a little box.
88 posted on 03/03/2024 10:12:58 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]

To: Chad C. Mulligan; marcusmaximus; Paul R.; Bruce Campbells Chin; PIF; familyop; MercyFlush; tet68; ..

Chad C. Mulligan: [Other way ‘round. That Putin acts according to Dugin is more likely. Certainly the long paragraph on Ukraine fits that mold.

Judging by some comments coming from other Moscovite power players, they are mighty close to Dugin’s “teachings”. (Hence the claim that Putin is a “moderate”.)

Do not fail to listen to your enemy.....]


Ideologists are like advertising execs or PR men for politicians. They dress up personal whim in the finery of deeper goals with which the population at large might identify. In the end, few remember the whys and wherefores in regard to Peter the Great’s conquests. They just remember that he was a Great Man who conquered, leaving judgments on morality to the next world.

Why would a ruler need to justify anything? Don’t his subjects instinctively obey his every command? Even in the most pitiless absolutism, a ruler had to justify actions that risked his soldiers’ lives and wreaked havoc on the welfare of his subjects. The risk was of troop mutiny and armed rebellion. So they came up with elaborate reasons, weaving in history, grievance and personal benefit. That’s where a guy like Dugin comes in.

Why invade Ukraine? Putin is at the top of the totem pole in Russia. Land grabs are a very traditional way to increase your fame. Putin could make Russia the richest country in the world, and it wouldn’t put him on the same pedestal as Peter. Plus - land grabs are easier and theoretically more achievable than the feat of catching up economically to the US. And few remember rulers who made their countries rich, whereas even a failed conqueror gets an ocean of ink.


89 posted on 03/03/2024 10:15:17 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper; All

I’m just telling it like it is.

I believe this war will be decided on the battle field. And the final ceasefire line will be decided by defensible terrain - which doesn’t change - rather than population distributions which can change.

Ukraine can avoid this rejecting NATO and going neutral.

Joining NATO doesn’t protect them. It is just a recipe for them being right on the front line of a gigantic future war.

We see the hatred against Russia on this board, including from people like you.

That mentality governs the leadership of NATO, and war with Russia is inevitable with that thinking.


90 posted on 03/03/2024 10:51:03 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: Fungi

‘Nothing makes sense in this conflict, nothing except the money flow. Where did it go, what was it used for, and who got it?”

It’s telling that none of the usual suspects; the UN, the EU, the OSCE, and the Vatican have come forth to call for or offer mediation, or even a ceasefire. Oddly, only the Chicoms have called for negotiations.


91 posted on 03/03/2024 11:00:53 PM PST by rxh4n1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Zhang Fei
I'm not sure you meant to, but you support my point re Dugin and Putin rather well. Conquerors get written up as heroes, and Czars don't have to justify anything to anybody. This is the philosophy Dugin is espousing in painstaking modern detail, but it has been so in Russia since the Mongol conquests, when Moscow learned how it was done.

Even if Putin doesn't take weekly phone calls from him, Dugin's world-conquest philosophy is the milieu that has surrounded Putin 24/7/365 for his entire life. He most assuredly was subjected to the heroic films of Sergei Eisenstein, as I was in high school by our Russian history teacher, (who probably was a Communist, looking back on it 60 years later).

92 posted on 03/03/2024 11:02:57 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: Reverend Wright

I’m just telling it like it is to an angry Fanatical Putin Stooge. Who is desperately spinning BS as if Putin didn’t badly screw-up his Terror Invasion from the start and is still going two years later.

That’s the way it is.


93 posted on 03/03/2024 11:03:52 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 90 | View Replies]

To: BeauBo

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

They can’t get the story straight. Which is it? Is Russia collapsing? Or is it on the way to conquering all of Europe and world domination? You can’t have both.


94 posted on 03/03/2024 11:09:42 PM PST by rxh4n1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

‘He would have used his friendship with Trump as an opportunity to attack Ukraine.”

Why didn’t he? Trump was the first to send military aid to the Ukraine. Before that Obama was sending non-lethal stuff. You’d think Putin would have attacked before Trump sent that aid and Ukraine was even weaker.


95 posted on 03/03/2024 11:19:17 PM PST by rxh4n1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: Forward the Light Brigade

Casualties are not deaths.

Frostbite produces casualties.


96 posted on 03/04/2024 12:17:02 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦...Motels for Migrants give legitimate addresses for mail-in ballots.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Chad C. Mulligan

Putin talking to his mistress about their childrens future education: Regarding the future of children, Putin advised taking a closer look at quality educational institutions in China and the UAE.

At the same time, the President casually threw out the phrase: “Soon all of Europe will be ours. And maybe soon there will be no place to study there at all.”

Kremlin snuff box, 03/03/24 - a strong supporter of the SMO & Russian blogger
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets


97 posted on 03/04/2024 4:36:09 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: aMorePerfectUnion

1000 per day? Could be but it is 1000 per day of YouCrayne Solders going thru
Ruzzia Meat Grinder.


98 posted on 03/04/2024 4:41:56 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: rxh4n1; BeauBo

They can’t get the story straight. Which is it? Is Russia collapsing?

BeauBo does not mention Russia collapsing, that’s your conjecture. Also various Russian spokesmen have said, time and time again, that Russia’s border ends where they say it does. ( find your own links ). Therefore, attempting to take all of Europe is very possible. Not that it would be successful.

More over Putin just said that: Regarding the future of children, Putin advised taking a closer look at quality educational institutions in China and the UAE. At the same time, the President casually threw out the phrase: “Soon all of Europe will be ours. And maybe soon there will be no place to study there at all.”

Kremlin snuff box, 03/03/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets


99 posted on 03/04/2024 4:42:37 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies]

To: Apparatchik
A war of lies and disinformation. The other day, Zelensky said that Ukraine had lost 31,000 soldiers over the course of the conflict.

Here, we're told that Russia lost 1,000/day during February; so......29 days in February, which would mean that Russia lost approx, 30K last month..........or the same as Ukraine has lost over the entire two years of the conflict.

Please.

100 posted on 03/04/2024 4:53:31 AM PST by marshmallow
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-115 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson