NATO estimates Russia has suffered over 1.4 million casualties during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, yet the Kremlin remains undeterred.
  • CityPop@lemmy.today
    9·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      1·
      11 days ago

      Military death alone were more than 4 times than, including civilians, we are close to 10 times the number.

      Don’t white wash Nazi Germany

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 days ago

    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

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Its even more astonishing when you compare it to modern military numbers that are closer to a 1 in 10 ratio even for large scale conflicts. Russia numbers for this conflict look like Napoleonic war casualties.