Commented on Sun Mar 30 16:21:45 2025 UTC
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The average speed of a snail is 0.048 kilometers/hour. In the 1129 days of the war (since 24 Feb 2022) a snail would have travelled 1300 KM. Ukraine is approximately 1316 KM wide from East to West. Pre-war DPR and LPR extended about 180km east to west into Ukraine.
In that time frame the russians have captured around 35km of ground in the east versus the pre-2022 borders in the Donetsk area (e.g. going towards Pokrovsk). At that advancement rate, it will take russia around 879,459 hours to get to the Polish border. That works out to be around another 100 years to make it to the Polish Border.
In that time frame of 1129 days russian losses are an estimated 912K human casualties, 10,478 tanks lost, 21,796 infantry fighting vehicles lost, 25,451 artillery systems lost, 1,345 MLRS systems lost, 1,122 anti-aircraft systems lost, 370 aircraft lost, 335 helicopters lost and 42,398 Supply trucks/vehicles lost. A lot of the soviet military reserve equipment is being depleted. What mostly remains in the reserves are items from the WWII or shortly thereafter time frames (like T-34 and T-55 tanks).
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