| Russia is running out of troops to fight with. The walls are closing in on Putin and his minions. |
They use publicly available documents. When someone dies in this day and age, it creates a paper trail. Mediazona has the names, ranks, date of death and other information. Who do you think they are missing? Can you name an individual you think died but isn't listed? Do you think they are systematically missing people from certain regions, or population groups? Where are the bodies? Intel agency data is in the "trust me bro" tier. Where do their numbers come from, and what data corroborates their counts? Do you know their methodology? Intelligence agencies produce reports they find useful, not necessarily truthful. |
That website states that it is an undercount and “The actual death toll is likely significantly higher. ” Note that Russia also has a lot of PMC’s, prisoners, and other irregular troops that are not counted. Not to mention militias from the Donbas that are not counted. |
Prigozhin said he lost 20k troops just in Bakhmut. |
Russia is losing roughly 15,000-20,000 soldiers per month in Ukraine. More lately because of how awful the fighting is in Adviika. Most are mobiks from the hinterlands. The smart ones in Moscow and St. Petersburg all left at the start of the war. There are now huge Russian populations in Indonesia and Turkey. Technically, Russia can absorb these losses of men. It's a big country. It's their equipment losses that are a problem. Thousands of tanks, not to mention all the armored personnel carriers, artillery etc. This is a really grim war. You can go to twitter or telegram or reddit and see it all. It's horrible. I think Ukrainians understand this is going to be a long war. And so they are in soldier preservation mode. They are on defense. Would not expect a major offensive from Ukrainians in the foreseeable future. They're just trying to survive. Ukraine has 44 million people. Russia has 143 million people We've reached the point where life preservation for Ukrainian soldiers has become pretty important. Russians don't care at all. |
| Putin is hoping to hold on long enough to take over the White House. If his people lose in 2024, he'll figure out a way to get out of Ukraine. |
He will not allow Biden to lose, don't worry. |
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There are plenty of other sources as well - for example Prigozhin himself admitted that over 20,000 Wagner troops got killed when they tried to capture Bakhmut, with another 40,000 injured, which is far closer to Ukrainian and western intel sources than any counts coming from official Russian lists or sources. That one campaign, by Wagner alone, would account for more than half of the supposed Russian combat casualties. The Russian figures do not add up. Not to mention, Russian figures average to only 30 a day, when on a daily basis there is video after video showing massive Russian troop and equipment losses far in excess of that. A thermal video came out yesterday from a Ukrainian sniper who killed 12 Russian soldiers and injured several more over the span of just an hour. Are we to believe Russian numbers, where a single Ukrainian sniper can account for half the supposed daily losses of Russia? Again, the Russian figures do not add up. Stop posting Russian numbers. They are illogical and nonsensical and do not stand up to even the lightest scrutiny. |
Huge numbers of Russian soldiers died at Bakhmut, at Vuhledar, at Avdiivka and many other places. Russia is wasting its future on a war that is causing it massive attrition - even as Russia heads into a crisis of population collapse. |
Agree … |
I love how the narrative has cycled through.. Victory's gonna come this spring! to Victory's gonna come this summer! to Crimea is about to be blockaded! to Russian defeat is around the corner! to well....Ukraine is, like, in soldier preservation mode. This is gonna be, like, a looooong war. Um. Okay. Whatever. |
| Republicans must stop this war today. |
| I can think of at least five young men at elite privates that will travel to Ukraine after graduation to fight for freedom. Slava Ukraina! |
The way to stop it is to stop Putin and make him withdraw. |