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Ukraine's General Staff reports record Russian losses of over 49,000 in October (www.pravda.com.ua)
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[–] [S] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The article is from a couple of days ago, when the month passed the previous high.
The final number for October is 54.200.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Russia’s invasion since 2022 has resulted in an estimated 2.1 million Russian casualties, 285 thousand dead. For comparison, the USA casualties in Vietnam were less than 400 thousand, 58 thousand dead, and the most intense fighting was over the last 8 years of the war. And, the USA lost.

    Russians have to be insane to support throwing their people away like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Didn't I see somewhere that Russia was using poorly trained cannon fodder "draftees" from other countries like North Korea to supplement their ranks? Any way to get a count of those, which I assume are commingled in the total?

    EDIT: In a bit of fortuitous timing, here's a post confirming this, although the one I saw was a different one quite a while back.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Mostly North Korea yes, but also Cuba and some African countries.
    It's insane that those people volunteer for this, except the North Koreans who are ordered.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    What's probably insane is how shitty their lives at home must be that they want out badly enough to do this. I'm sure some do it due to their political beliefs (or cocky super-soldier self-image), but I'm willing to place good money that most just want to be somewhere else & are taking the first viable "out" they can.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    Around the world there are a lot of people who see Russia as the hero counterpart to the evil west. Heck we even have those people in the west! They don't realize that Russia was always way worse than the west. Both before during and after WW2.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    IDK where you have the 2.1 million number from, Lost personnel is 1.588.170 and some of those are POW.
    But you are right it's insane, especially when you compare the number of dead, which is estimated at more than 1 million.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Don’t know how accurate but The Economist recently published estimates of 2.1 million. The article is paywalled but here’s a different source reporting on it:

    https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russias-war-losses-in-ukraine-exceed-2-million-independent-estimate-finds-23972

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    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Not enough

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    It's really increased a lot this year, so now it's about double what it was the first 4 years.
    But absolutely, the only number that is enough is when Russians go home.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Russia recruits about 30.000 per month and loses 50.000 per month now. The Russian army is being drained.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    True it was estimated they recruited about a thousand per day before the election, but now the mobilization has begun, and although it is kind of a stealth mobilization, I bet that number is higher now.
    Still it's insane to lose more than 50000 personnel in a single month.

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