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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1506839501338992644?s=21[/twitter][/quote]
Is this credible?  :shock: [/quote]

Russia has a huge army of conscripts that they don’t care about and a small trained real army.  Their military is a paper tiger.[/quote]

This is the Russia small “trained” army. About 10k killed and 3 times that number wounded. I would say it is more like 15k plus 45k wound/prisoners. This means many of their combat units are no longer effective. A battalion of 10k troops and 300 tank is now 2k troops and 20 tanks. [/quote]

Russian figures exclude deaths/ injuries from:

- Vagner Group: these are “private contractors” made up almost exclusively of Russian ex- military, including many combat vets and special operations troops.  They answer directly to Puty.  About 4,600 have been killed by the Ukrainians.

- Chechens and Belorussians: we know Belorussian troops are guarding Chernobyl, and probably not dying in large numbers; the Chechens have suffered heavy losses; the entire first was was likely wiped out.  Doubt Puty is counting these deaths.

- unknown:  deserters and MIA.  Russians deny there are any deserters at all, there are many photos of Russian field equipment and field positions simply abandoned.  The Ukrainians are not keeping a precise tally of Russian dead; there are likely many unknown KIA.[/quote]

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