The Russian-Ukrainian War Thread

rsemmes

Active Member
Something funny...

The Ukrainian General Staff estimates Russia has lost about 1,400,970 personnel, with 1,250 in the latest daily tally. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russia is losing at least 1,000 troops daily, underscoring the intensity of current fighting. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier noted that April alone saw over 35,000 Russian personnel killed or seriously wounded.

NATO estimates that Russia has suffered more than 1.4 million military casualties in its war against Ukraine, but believes Moscow has not abandoned its objectives.
Source: a senior NATO official speaking to journalists, as reported by a European Pravda correspondent in Brussels
More details: The official said Russia had suffered "between 1.3 and 1.45 million total casualties" since the start of the full-scale invasion, including around half a million killed.

NATO officials estimate that Russia has suffered between 1.3 and 1.45 million total casualties, including approximately 500,000 deaths, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian military has suffered 1.4 million battlefield casualties and as many as 450,000 deaths since its February 2022 full-scale invasion, according to new CSIS data.

An "unknown NATO official"... Is NATO copy+paste whatever Ukraine says? Is CSIS using Ukrainian "data"? Is that how we do our "estimates"?
 

Ananda

The Bunker Group
I think this isn't true. Even in authoritarian countries popular opinion matters. Sometimes it matters more than in democracies.
Many of dictactors downfall coming from changes in popular opinion of the majorities. Living in a country that see how 2 Dictactors fall from power due that changes. They also come to power many because popular opinion of majority support them. Something that many live in democracies seems could not see. Most Dictators rise to power because popular opinion support and fall down because they lost it.

Whether they fall to another dictactor or to 'democracy' is another matter. Popular opinion changes that drove that. Most popular opinion changes due to economic necceseties and not this nonsense of 'democracy dream', that many western media and think tank sold.
 
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