Russia just accidentally admitted to its staggering troop losses in Ukraine
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I was under the impression that many were outright forced to fight, as opposed to signing up.
Nope, by law Russia cannot use conscripts outside their own borders. All of them signed a contract to be there.
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The article does not say that there have been 600k casualties. It says there are 600k fighting in Ukraine.
Where did you get "already lost at least 600,000"?
I agree that the 600K figure is a mis-read of the article; however:
According to figures from Ukraine's General Staff, Russia has lost 217,440 troops since Jan. 1, 2025. The discrepancy tallies with Western analysis of Russia's staggering losses. "They lose somewhere in the ballpark of 35,000 to 45,000 people per month, and perhaps they recruit a little bit north of that number," George Barros, Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), told the Kyiv Independent earlier this month.I am generally inclined to believe Ukraine’s official figures of over 1 million dead, injured or captured Russian soldiers so far in this “3 day special military operation”.
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Nope, by law Russia cannot use conscripts outside their own borders. All of them signed a contract to be there.
Learn something new every day
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The amount of money they get for signing on is so staggeringly huge, it is one of the drivers of the high inflation they are having.
The amount of money they are told they get for signing...
Some of it goes to corrupt commanders and various middle men.
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God knows we'll need every little bit to rebuild
Slava Ukraine.
Be safe if you can. Wish I could do more to help. I tried to do some things with the digital forces but there isn't much left I can do that you all need. -
The amount of money they are told they get for signing...
Some of it goes to corrupt commanders and various middle men.
Finally a trickle down economy that works!
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Honestly when they’re done, that manufacturing capacity will do great things for their economy.
Do they manufacture them in Ukraine? I always assumed they got them for elsewhere.
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I agree that the 600K figure is a mis-read of the article; however:
According to figures from Ukraine's General Staff, Russia has lost 217,440 troops since Jan. 1, 2025. The discrepancy tallies with Western analysis of Russia's staggering losses. "They lose somewhere in the ballpark of 35,000 to 45,000 people per month, and perhaps they recruit a little bit north of that number," George Barros, Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), told the Kyiv Independent earlier this month.I am generally inclined to believe Ukraine’s official figures of over 1 million dead, injured or captured Russian soldiers so far in this “3 day special military operation”.
Holy shit. Over 1k people killed every day? How the hell do you maintain any kind of morale?
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Do they manufacture them in Ukraine? I always assumed they got them for elsewhere.
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Do they manufacture them in Ukraine? I always assumed they got them for elsewhere.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Given the volume they quote each year they either have sourcing figured out or produce at least some of the parts internally. Keep in mind, in FPV drones a lot of the tech is not some cutting edge stuff.
Some of the strikes at the residential complexes can be targeted attacks at distributed micro factories.
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Nope, by law Russia cannot use conscripts outside their own borders. All of them signed a contract to be there.
Russia also has the warped idea that Ukraine is part of Russia and they're reclaiming it, so who really knows whether any law is being honored.
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It's what many says, Europe needs Ukraine for many reasons and a big one is (sadly), their knowledge about a mordern war.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]"We need people from this big war to fight the next big war!" is the line of thinking that's going to burn everything to the ground, just like it did a century ago.
Between Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Iran, Britain floating warships off the coast of China, Indian and Pakistan firing on one another, North Africa in a decade long bloodbath, the US sending marines to suppress unrest in local cities... its not good folks.
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Holy shit. Over 1k people killed every day? How the hell do you maintain any kind of morale?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]You don't. You have lots of conscription to supplant your front lines. You do all sorts of corruption in the middle-ranks of the military, so junior officers can generate income off the desperation of their greener soldiers. You create an industry around the war, such that everyone hates it but someone is always profiting off the misery of others.
And then the machine grinds on.
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Honestly when they’re done, that manufacturing capacity will do great things for their economy.
The shareholders will benefit greatly from more war.
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The second it is safe, the second the war is over, I'm coming over and spending tourism dollars over there.
They'll need it because the war money will stop immediately. They're being funded only as much as it hurts Russia. Just like Afghanistan in the 80s.
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Nope, by law Russia cannot use conscripts outside their own borders. All of them signed a contract to be there.
Legally true, but there is of course plenty of coersion.
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In Russia’s defence, who could have possibly have thought that invading Ukraine in the winter wasn’t going to be a simple 3 day weekend kind of thing?
If they assassinated Zelensky like they had planned, it probably would have been.
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If they assassinated Zelensky like they had planned, it probably would have been.
That feels like a big contingency that they failed to adequately plan for
Plus wouldn’t the armed forces still fight?
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"We need people from this big war to fight the next big war!" is the line of thinking that's going to burn everything to the ground, just like it did a century ago.
Between Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Iran, Britain floating warships off the coast of China, Indian and Pakistan firing on one another, North Africa in a decade long bloodbath, the US sending marines to suppress unrest in local cities... its not good folks.
Europe has not been aggresive at all. Being ready doesn't mean you want to go to war.
Many are against reaming Europe, thinking weapon = war, but it's not that simple. Nuke are scaring as hell, but we haven't had such a long period of peace before nuke came.
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Holy shit. Over 1k people killed every day? How the hell do you maintain any kind of morale?
Blocker units aren't there for fun.
