• zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    https://tass.com/politics/1709329

    Russian Department of Defense puts Ukrainian irretrievable losses at 388,000. That’s what I was thinking of but got it mixed up with the NYT source when I cited it. You can chose to disbelieve the Russian figures but I actually think these numbers are quite conservative if anything. Nobody disputes Ukraine losing 50,000+ at minimum in their counter-offensive after all. Again, Russia has had a 10:1 shell advantage and air advantage for quite a while, it makes no sense to say Russian losses are higher when Ukraine does massive suicide waves and have far less equipment and ammo.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t take either at their word. But if in August the US says 300k Russian casualties and in November Russia says 390k Ukrainian casualties, that leads me to believe that it’s been bloody for them both and there isn’t such a tremendous difference in casualties between Ukraine and Russia as ten to one.

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        9 months ago

        Ukrainians and the west are massive liars, and have massively lied this entire war. Russia has not, merely rounded things up or down slightly. If you believe both equally I’m sorry you’re naive and pro-western biased