Very interesting, the age of some of the Russian troops in their 60s and 70s and a 63 year old pilot. Seems a bit desperate.'I have 25 million reserves' - Shoigu.
Here is the article from the BBC:
Counting Russia's dead in Ukraine - and what it says about the changing face of the war - BBC News
What we learned from counting the Russian deadwww.bbc.co.uk
its all flannel.'I have 25 million reserves' - Shoigu.
Here is the article from the BBC:
Counting Russia's dead in Ukraine - and what it says about the changing face of the war - BBC News
What we learned from counting the Russian dead
You don't need to train or equip cannon fodder. They know how to die - well, they don't actually, but will quickly learn!
I wonder how many Russians have died fighting this war already, saw a BBC article that says atleast 25k, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like 10x this amount.'I have 25 million reserves' - Shoigu.
Here is the article from the BBC:
Counting Russia's dead in Ukraine - and what it says about the changing face of the war - BBC News
What we learned from counting the Russian dead
“One man gets the rifle, the next man gets some bullets. The second man follows the man with the rifle, and when he is shot, picks up the rifle and carries on fighting!”
The Bakhmut combatants were mainly Wagner, so they took the losses not the Russian Army.
True. Even so, I guess the large numbers Russia can put into battle (properly armed or not) can still bog down Ukrainian advances in many locations. It would be nice to see some mass surrenders from Russian troops ... that would be telling (assuming their commanders are not shooting them in the back).
its closer 200k dead than 25k.
It says something about the Russian regime, that while it uses mobile crematoria to dispose of the dead bodies, it takes a public service organisation in a country not directly involved in the war, but understands the sanctity of human life, to go to the painstaking task of validating and verifying war losses. The 25k figure that the BBC has arrived at, are only the ones they are aware of, have been able to check on, and are sufficiently confident to publish.
And a disproportionate percentage are likely to be from the far flung provinces, poor areas, ethnic minorities...anything to reduce the number of body bags (hence the mobile crematoria also) that return to St Petersburg and Moscow.
I wonder by how many the Russian prison population has declined
Great news
Thank you, I'll take a look
All figures given by Russia are Russian Army dead. They certainly don't include Donetsk and Luhansk "Peoples Republic" troops and ( I assume ) leave out PMC Wagner losses.
They don't actually give the Russian Army dead anyway. They mobilised something like 120,000 people on the border, to invade Ukraine. If they've only lost a few thousand of those, why did they then need to mobilise another 300,000 men?
