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Surpassing 1 million people killed and wounded would be “a stunning and grizzly milestone,” according to a report by a prominent Washington think tank.

Russia will likely surpass 1 million casualties in its war on Ukraine this summer, according to one of the world’s leading think tanks, reflecting the staggering human toll of President Vladimir Putin’s assault on his neighbor.

Around 250,000 of these Russian soldiers have died, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report Tuesday.

Ukraine has also suffered heavy losses, with 400,000 casualties including between 60,000 and 100,000 killed, it said.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. He's saying that 100% of the personnel they had at the start of the war are wounded or dead. Bit of a difference! We know Putin has plenty of bodies to throw in this meatgrinder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s a near infinite supply of downtrodden desperate people east of the Urals, who will go to war for literal pennies because for them it’s a life-changing amount of money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. Any half-way competent Russian commander would steamroll Ukraine because Russia has roughly 10x the GDP as Ukraine (or it did before the invasion, at least), and roughly 4x the population. That Russia has only managed to take a sliver of land on the west side of Ukraine and not the whole country suggests that Russia has dropped the ball in an epic way AND Ukraine has gotten crazy lucky. This war should have been over a long time ago if Russia was 1/10th what we thought it was back in early 2021 before the invasion. That it's not and not only has Ukraine managed to hold Russia off but actually take over Russian territory puts the lie to Russian propaganda that they deserve a seat at the same table as the US and China. As the Infographics Show likes to put it, we thought Russia was the second strongest military in the world. Now we know it's the second strongest military in Ukraine...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Again.

This not innability. They dropped the ball on 3 day operation, sure. Dumb fucks ignored proper intel.

They are breaking Ukraine. Slowly grinding the will away.

They want to install a new Belarus-like government. This is what russia means by the bs of "denazifying Ukraine". Puppets will run the country under the guise of a free country.

This was ussr and they want it back.

They are OPENLY talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Russia needs to keep Moscow and St. Petersburg completely isolated from the effects of the war.

It limits their recruitment pool a lot.

The Russian Army is also corrupted as fuck, everything has been for sale for quarter century and over