Vladimir Putin admits to 360,000 “irretrievable” losses in Ukraine. (50,000-100,000 confirmed dead according to new report)

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dude is literally in the trenches, if he survives the war, that'll be a massive L for russians.

 

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Notice we don’t have the same wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Coli Arabs as we do for Palestine. Apparently ethnically cleansing Mariinka and Bahkmut of all life and bombing maternity hospitals is ok if you oppose the U.S.

This is disingenuous as fukk. Everyone in the west is calling our Russia for it's war crimes as they should, Sanctions place on Russia. We sent Billions in support to Ukraine. The whole media was in uproar when Russia attacks. Meanwhile Israel is indiscriminately bombing Gaza and not a peep from the west.

 

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I'm as to why there are some in her acting like 360,000 literally perished or something when the article states;

The newly claimed losses—which could include deaths, major injuries or deployments away from the battlefield

Make mistakes about it though---it's still a L either way you slice it.

 

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No sane modern country wants to be a part of Russians orbit.

 

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Ukraine is bombing Russia






Orcs yesterday


Orcs today

 

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Killing Russians By The Truckload Around Avdiivka, Ukraine’s M-2 Fighting Vehicles Are Showing How Russia Loses—And Ukraine Wins​

On Oct. 10, elements of two Russian field armies—together possessing 40,000 troops and thousands of vehicles—attacked the Ukrainian garrison in Avdiivka, just northwest of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

It was the first and main attack of Russia’s third annual winter offensive in its 22-month wider war on Ukraine. And it failed.

More accurately, it has been failing. The Russian operation around Avdiivka is ongoing. But after advancing a short distance—a mile or so—north and south of the city last month, the Russian 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies at best have stalled. Some analysts believe they actually are losing ground around the village of Stepove on Avdiivka’s northern flank.

It’s no secret that Moscow’s new strategy is to outlast Kyiv—to win a war of attrition. But the Russians can’t win a war of attrition if they continue to lose many more vehicles and troops than the Ukrainians lose.

In that context, the battle for Avdiivka has been a disaster for Russia. It’s exactly the kind of fight the Kremlin can’t afford if its goal is to grind away Ukraine’s military strength. Around Avdiivka, it’s the Russians who are getting ground down.

Russian casualties—dead and maimed—exceed 13,000 in just this one sector. Ukraine’s own casualties likely have been much lighter. Perhaps a few thousand.

Yes, the Russian army in Ukraine—at least 400,000 strong—is larger than Ukraine’s own front-line force is. Yes, Russia can mobilize many more replacement troops than Ukraine can mobilize. Yes, Russian industry out-produces Ukrainian industry.

No, Russia’s resources are not limitless.

“Ukraine then counterattacks, sometimes with Leopards—and often with Bradleys raking the treelines with 25-millimeter cannon fire. Bradleys also transport small assault teams that clear out Russian stragglers from time to time. Once Stepove and the treelines by the railroad are clear, or mostly clear, of Russian troops, Ukraine pulls back to their functional defensive positions and waits for the next Russian attack.”

“Constantly pushing the Russians back helps preserve the defensive positions Ukraine currently occupies,” Hill explained. “This tactic is much easier for the 47th Brigade to use because of the firepower of the Bradley, which can engage Russian armor and has done so, and its cannon fire is very effective against Russian infantry even when they are in cover.”

The 30-ton, 11-person M-2 with its side-mounted reactive armor effectively resists Russian rocket-propelled grenades. “This not only keeps the crew alive, it gives them the confidence to aggressively attack the Russians, which makes a huge difference,” Hill wrote.

The 47th Brigade got all 190 M-2s that the United States pledged to the Ukrainian war effort early this year. The brigade has lost at least 30 M-2s. But it needs just a hundred of the vehicles fully to equip its battalions.

All that is to say, the 47th Brigade isn’t hurting for firepower. And it’s found the perfect place to use it: Avdiivka. More specifically, Stepove. The Russians keep sending men and vehicles for the M-2 crews to chop to pieces.

This is not a winning strategy for Russia. The Kremlin can build, and restore from long-term storage, at most 1,500 tanks and a couple thousand fighting vehicles a year.

Taking into account the need to backfill losses from 2022, Russian forces can afford to lose at most 50 tanks a month without depleting their overall armor holdings. The Avdiivka fight lately has pushed the Russians’ armor losses well above sustainable levels.

The Kremlin drafted 300,000 fresh troops this year but, amid protests and labor-shortages, hasn’t yet begun a second mobilization.

Extreme losses—at least 315,000 killed or severely wounded in 22 months—have contributed to what the RAND Corporation, a California think-tank, described as a “ticking social time-bomb” in Russia, a country with just 143 million people.

Killing Russians By The Truckload Around Avdiivka, Ukraine’s M-2 Fighting Vehicles Are Showing How Russia Loses—And Ukraine Wins

Russia is counting on staying in the war for the long term. That’s its whole plan for victory. A plan a few battalions of Ukrainian vehicles have exposed as a farce.

www.forbes.com

 

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UK Defense Ministry: At current rate, Russia to lose 500,000 troops by 2025

Russia will likely need five to 10 years to rebuild a cohort of highly trained and experienced military units, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in its intelligence update on Dec. 30.

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UK Defense Ministry: At current rate, Russia to lose 500,000 troops by 2025​

by Alexander KhrebetDecember 30, 2023 2:09 PM2 min read

The body of a Russian soldier in a ditch beside the highway leading into Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, on Sept. 14, 2022, shortly after the territory was liberated by Ukraine's forces. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin/The Kyiv Independent)

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Russia will likely need five to 10 years to rebuild a cohort of highly trained and experienced military units, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in its intelligence update on Dec. 30.

The update comments on the significant rise in the average number of estimated Russian losses, reported daily by Ukraine's General Staff, in 2023 compared to 2022.

The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces has been reporting around 1,000 Russian casualties daily in 2023 as Russian forces are attempting assaults in several directions in eastern Ukraine, including Avdiivka, Bakhmut, and Kupiansk axes. The reports are estimates by the General Staff that can't be independently verified.

“The increase in daily averages, as reported by the Ukrainian authorities, almost certainly reflects the degradation of Russia’s forces and its transition to a lower quality, high quantity mass army since the ‘partial mobilization’ of reservists in September 2022,” the ministry said in a daily update shared on X (formerly Twitter).

According to Ukraine’s General Staff, as of Dec. 30, Russia has lost 358,270 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. The Ukrainian military doesn’t disclose how it has been calculating Russian losses.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine disclose their own casualties.

The British ministry also said that if Russian casualties continue at the current rate, by 2025, Russian forces will have sustained over half a million troops killed and wounded over three years of the full-scale invasion.

“This is compared to the Soviet Union’s 70,000 casualties in the nine-year Soviet-Afghan War,” said the ministry.

The ministry reported in early December that between Feb. 24, 2022, and November 2023, Russian forces “likely suffered around 220,000-280,000 wounded and approximately 70,000 killed.” The estimated number of killed Russian troops includes approximately 20,000 Wagner Group mercenaries.

The range of losses has been calculated as between 290,000 and 350,000 personnel, with the 320,000 figure being the median figure.

The New York Times reported in August, citing U.S. officials, that Russia's military casualties were nearing 300,000. The figure included an estimated 120,000 deaths on the Russian side, which Moscow “routinely” undercounts.

 

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A group of Ukrainian soldiers got hit by FPV drone while evacuating their friend. They later got finished off by drone dropped grenades. This footage won't appear on any Pro-Ukraine subreddit like r/CombatFootage you have to go to r/UkraineRussiaReport, they're the only subreddit that don't censor Russian combat footages.