Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 8

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Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war - Ukraine

Unverified Ukrainian data shows 824 dying per day - the UK says the trends are "likely accurate".
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The Ukrainian military claims 137,780 Russian military deaths since the full-scale invasion began.
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BBC confirms death of over 16,000 Russians in war: large increase in February again

Based on open sources, the BBC Russian service has identified the names of 16,071 Russian soldiers who died in the war against Ukraine. This is data without losses of the occupiers of the so-called “Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics” terrorist organisations.
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Based on open sources, the BBC Russian service has identified the names of 16,071 Russian soldiers who died in the war against Ukraine. This is data without losses of the occupiers of the so-called "Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics" terrorist organisations.

Source: BBC Russian service

Quote: "Generally, we were able to confirm the death of 16,071 Russian soldiers. A third of all these losses includes people who were not associated with the army before the invasion – volunteers, conscripts, prisoners and newly recruited PMC personnel.
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The Western white supremacist disinformation propagandists need to explain.
 
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MunosMachos said:
www.bbc.com

Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war - Ukraine

Unverified Ukrainian data shows 824 dying per day - the UK says the trends are "likely accurate".
www.bbc.com



www.pravda.com.ua

BBC confirms death of over 16,000 Russians in war: large increase in February again

Based on open sources, the BBC Russian service has identified the names of 16,071 Russian soldiers who died in the war against Ukraine. This is data without losses of the occupiers of the so-called “Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics” terrorist organisations.
www.pravda.com.ua www.pravda.com.ua



The Western white supremacist disinformation propagandists need to explain.
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You read the whole BBC Russia article?

The total irretrievable losses of Russia (that is, the number of those who were out of action due to injury or death or went missing) can be at least 144,500 people.
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U.S. Estimates Russian Casualties in Ukraine Nearing 200K – NYT - The Moscow Times

U.S. and other Western officials estimate that close to 200,000 Russian troops have been killed and wounded in Ukraine nearly one year into Moscow’s invasion of its western neighbor, The New York Times reported Thursday. “The figures for Ukraine and Russia are estimates based on satellite...
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U.S. and other Western officials estimate that close to 200,000 Russian troops have been killed and wounded in Ukraine nearly one year into Moscow’s invasion of its western neighbor, The New York Times reportedThursday.

“The figures for Ukraine and Russia are estimates based on satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and on-the-ground media reports, as well as official reporting from both governments,” the newspaper said.

Hundreds of both Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or injured each day recently as fighting rages for the eastern city of Bakhmut, the longest and bloodiest battle of Russia’s invasion, the officials estimate.
 
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How many Russians have been killed in Ukraine? | The Economist

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How many Russians have been killed in Ukraine?​

The death toll probably exceeds all Soviet and Russian wars since 1945 combined​


Nearly 1,200 Russian soldiers were recently killed in a single day around Bakhmut, according to Mark Milley, America’s top general, in an interview with Politico, a news website. “That’s Iwo Jima,” he reflected, referring to a brutal 36-day Pacific battle during the second world war. “That’s Shiloh”—a battle in the American civil war.

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (csis), a think-tank in Washington, says that Russia is likely to have suffered 60,000 to 70,000 combat fatalities in the first year of its invasion, citing American and other Western officials, as well as public reports. Our chart depicts the central estimate in that range.

Including those killed, wounded and missing, total casualty numbers swell to 200,000 to 250,000. Calculating such things is a highly uncertain business. But the csis tally is only a little higher than Western government estimates that draw on intelligence.

Stratospheric Russian casualties are unsurprising. Russia’s initial blitzkrieg in February 2022 failed, and the conflict has since turned into a war of attrition: huge volumes of shellfire continue to pound forces on each side. In its quest to capture the eastern city of Bakhmut, which is teetering, Russia sent waves of conscripts and prisoners to fight. They have been mown down in large numbers. For two weeks in late January and early February, as Russia intensified its attacks across eastern Ukraine, its casualties probably reached over 800 per day, killed and wounded, according to British defence intelligence.

This level of carnage far exceeds what Russia has faced in any of its modern conflicts. It lost 95 to 185 soldiers per month in Chechnya between 1999 and 2009 and 130 to 145 soldiers per month in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. In Ukraine it has seen 5,000 to 5,800 military deaths (including mercenaries) per month. The number of Russian soldiers killed in the past year probably exceeds the death toll in every other Russian and Soviet conflict since 1945, combined. Its casualties are dwarfed only by the second world war, in which the Soviet Union lost more than 8m men.

Russia’s severe losses forced it to conduct a mobilisation drive in September but it has largely frittered away those forces. It could launch another wave of mobilisation, though that would come with political risks. Already, two-thirds of Russians know someone who has been mobilised or is fighting in the war. Moreover, the troops killed in 2022 were many of Russia’s best young officers and most experienced soldiers. The men who replace them will have less training, discipline and skill. Nor will they have the same quality of equipment.
 
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Trial of opposition activist starts in Russia behind closed doors​

Russia began the closed-door trial of opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces up to two decades in prison on treason charges for making comments critical of the Kremlin.

Kara-Murza, 41, was charged over comments made at three public events abroad, his lawyer told the TASS news agency, insisting the words “did not pose any threat to the country”.

“A true Russian patriot, he stands accused of high treason for his tireless fight for a Putin-free Russia,” his wife, Evgenia Kara-Murza, wrote on social media.
Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed in April on charges of disseminating what the authorities consider “fake news” about the Russian army.
His trial is the latest in a string of cases against opposition voices as a Kremlin crackdown on dissidents has intensified since the invasion of Ukraine.
 
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