Thousands and thousands dead or injured thank to putin's right wing authoritarian regime and it's imperialistic dreams.
What does it matter if the number is 500k, one, two millions?
Putin can stop this war, stop the invasion. But he is sending more and more young Russians to death and kill people już because they were born on the "wrong" part of the land.
I hope that the war ends soon.
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective.
I remember when the Kyivpost or whomever posted casualties in excess of 1.1M, when that was known to be the entire active force strength of the Russian Army at the time. Gotta take some of this with a grain of salt, because it's always printed with breathless "Victory over Russia is imminent!" implications, like the meme
Nobody seems to want to believe this is the kind of fight that can drag on for another four years. Or another ten. Or another twenty.
Fuck imperialist NATO, what they say is about as believable when the headline is Trump says
Now do it 3 more times and you have their WW2 casualties. This war is going to cost Russia so much to lose it will make Trumps 300b look like the good outcome.
That's a lot of casualties for a two week operation
what's crazy to me are two aspects:
kill to death ratio in this conflict, on the RU side, is WILD. Generally you end up with one dead for every few wounded / casevac'd - that's not what we're seeing in Ukraine, where Russians get blasted, mined, droned etc., and just die on the battlefield.
Russian army numbers - so many of the wounded and dead aren't regular russian army, but drunks, criminals, and old men they scraped out of the oblasts and prisons to keep the meatgrinder fed... so theoretically russia still has an army after all of this (good luck deploying it without fuel, modern functioning armor / apcs / artillery tubes etc.,) but yeah
Arrogance is expensive.
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