Russia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022
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Poor person gets brainwashed, coerced and joins military to earn money.
"Haha, orc!!! They all deserve to die a pigs death!!"
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That's kind of what happens when your government and economy functions off of corruption.
Well its either that or collapse, problem with Russia though is that the various ethnic and political groups that could've collapsed it easily were more or less wiped out during the holodomor. Specifically the ones in Siberia and the far east.
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Most of these people who died likely didn't even want to fight, but we're drafted anyway. Blame the oligarchy, not the people who were forced to participate
Had my father been drafted for 'nam his plan was to use his rifle to kill as many officers as possible before himself, rather than fight for the US in that war. I had the same plan in the unlikely event I was drafted for something, too
Maybe the Russians could have a backbone like that, yeah? They're being given tools of war and willingly go off to die without a fight? Actually pathetic, and not worth sympathy
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The Oryx numbers at least are not underestimated – each single number has a photo to prove it. And the numbers published by ZSU always rise and descend hand-in-hand with those of Oryx – there seems to be a more or less fixed coefficient that you can convert the numbers back and forth.
Also, because the ZSU data is published before that of Oryx, it must be based on actual data. Then, the question is: what is the coefficient between reality and these numbers we keep seeing in these brown images. We have got a couple of leaks from the Russia, and they have been almost precisely the same as the data published by ZSU. Therefore, the coefficient is apparently 1.
I find it very surprising that the ZSU numbers are not inflated, but when trying to find evidence on how much they are inflated, I've only found evidence of them actually being as precisely correct as possible.
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They're using money in lieu of skill. Eventually they'll run out if it.
Then no more high salary for the Russian soldier – and consequently, no more soldiers.
High salary? I thought at this point most of their fighting force is getting paid in "Not going back to that gulag for those heinous things you did to people back home."
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Russia is losing... Badly
Their only hope is for Ukraine to just give up
This is trumps job now
But they keep taking land, don't they?
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Lost, huh?
Does that mean casualties? As in, not necessarily deaths?
Russia has lost 1,330 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone
I would assume the answer is 'yes.'
Fuck I hate the propaganda reporting on both sides.
A bit over one third of these losses are deaths.
Typically in wars it's about one sixth, and that is also approximately Ukraine's ratio as well. For the Russia the number is very different because they don't care for their wounded – many of the wounded are converted to dead through inexistence of medical care.
So, 900 000 Russian losses equals a bit over 300 000 dead orcs/roaches/whateveryoucallthem.
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Russia just gained 900,000 eligible women in his eyes.
About 600 000 of those 900 000 are permanently crippled instead of dead. Those who already were married don't produce a eligible woman for Putin, but of course in the Russian atmosphere you won't find a woman if your number of limbs is less than four.
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And then they send the mutilated back out into the trenches literally.
Some they do, but actually most they don't.
The casualty rate is about 40 000 per month, meaning that there are about 25 000 cripples per month. The Russian recruitment capacity is about 25 000 to 35 000 per month depending on the source, so there should be about one cripple for one four-limbed soldier if all of the cripples were sent to the front. In reality, their number is a tiny fraction of that, as we can see in the videos. -
Well its either that or collapse, problem with Russia though is that the various ethnic and political groups that could've collapsed it easily were more or less wiped out during the holodomor. Specifically the ones in Siberia and the far east.
What happened in Siberia and the far east? Which groups were killed?
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Does that not include Russians defecting also?
Russians don't really defect. They are told that Ukrainians will torture them for fun if they are caught alive and then kill each one, so it looks for them as if a 99% chance of dying on the field is still better chance than 100% chance of torture and then death anyway.
And because the Russian soldiers honestly believe this is how Ukrainians behave, they do that very thing to Ukrainians "in revenge".
If they defect to the rear, they are shot by kadyrovite sheep enthusiasts.
So, whether the number includes defects is largely irrelevant. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but that won't affect the numbers even by a tenth of a percent.
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What happened in Siberia and the far east? Which groups were killed?
Lots of native Siberians and the Eastern Ukrainians, while the Holodomor was centralized to Ukraine it was not restricted to Ukraine itself. Meaning lots and lots of starving people that either fled or died. Also the Soviets were still doing purges throughout Siberia and the Far East because they were paranoid of a resurgent White or Black army which definitely didn't help, also when I say purges I mean entire villages wiped out.
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It's not mere personal gain with Putin. The man has a vision of returning Russia to glorious Soviet Union. Probably felt kicked in the balls when it all fell apart. Remember, he was the head of the KGB, an extraordinarily powerful man.
He likely felt he would quickly crush Ukraine, make them an example, and then move on to other lost, and weaker, countries.
He was never the head of KGB. He was planted as the prime minister by KGB precisely because the big guys at KGB believed they could control him when the prime minister becomes a president by the president resigning.
The other important people in KGB would never have allowed for the head of the KGB to become the president if the Russia, because they were his competitors.
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Riiiiiigght.
Be conscripted and die, or fight conscription and die.
Cowards to the last man.
Russian soldiers are mostly not conscripted, but enlist because the salary of a factory worker in a rural town is around 70 € per month, whereas the salary of a soldier is about 2000 € per day, which means a monthly salary each day, including weekends.
They go killing because they are okay to kill others in order to get a richer life for their family. And that's not an okay reason. They have chosen their fate and deserve death.
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Including wounded is the official definition of lost, always been. No need to call propaganda, it simply how is defined.
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This number might count soldiers several times. If a soldier gets injured and becomes a casualty, they can heal up and then serve again. So the same soldier could be injured and recover three times and then be killed. That would make hm a causally four times.
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A bit over one third of these losses are deaths.
Typically in wars it's about one sixth, and that is also approximately Ukraine's ratio as well. For the Russia the number is very different because they don't care for their wounded – many of the wounded are converted to dead through inexistence of medical care.
So, 900 000 Russian losses equals a bit over 300 000 dead orcs/roaches/whateveryoucallthem.
The thing is, for the war it doesn’t really have much meaning whether the loss is through death or a serious wound.
Not true. A soldier that's killed isn't going back home to his family. He'll never have kids. He'll never contribute to the economy ever again.
Trying to say kills don't matter in a war is retarded.
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I just believe the righteous antipathy is better leveled at the Russian government, specifically Putin, than the anonymous cannon fodder.
I live in Finland, where about five percent of the people are Russian-speakers. Half from the Russia, the other half from Baltics.
My image of them has changed dramatically since 2022. I've had a job where I encounter a lot of different low-educated workers, and that has a included several tens of Russian-speakers. There has been precisely one among them that has not been repeating Putin's talking points.
Nowadays I try to steer clear of everyone with a Russian name because I don't want to ruin my workday. When they hear that I've lived some time in Ukraine, the war easily comes up. And then does the propaganda.
Having this experience has been something I really wouldn't have wanted to have. I have indeed met Russians who are decent people. But, all of them have received other citizenships already years ago, because if you don't believe the Russian propaganda, you see what a horrible country it is, and want nothing to do with it.
If someone has not left the Russia by 2025, they have a reason for that. They stand for Putin's fascism.
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Where is your humanity?
In the above post.
This is a war fought against humanity. Ukraine's strategy is to keep Russian losses at or above the Russian recruitment capacity. If the Russian losses descend under 25 000 per month, they can first fill their ranks, and when that's done, start actually training their soldiers, which would change the course of the war.
If there are less than about a thousand Russia military losses per day, then humanity is in danger in large regions. -
I would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
They don't count as military losses. This isn't a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesn't remove a soldier from the ranks.
