Jayjay
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Use your brain. If Ukrainian losses were "100k dead", there would be no one left, because the amount of wounded would make the effective casualties 3-5 times that.No, that's not a lie. He said it's russian army losses. Total losses are estimated by various independent millitary experts to be 15-25K. Ukrainian losses are estimated to be 60-100K dead.What also explains it is that Russian MoD is full of shit. It has lied before, why wouldn't it lie now?You show your utter ignorance again.View attachment 40417Russian defense minister released russian military losses so far - 5 937 men.
That does not include DNR/LNR infantry and other non russian army regiments.
There is no russian infantry in Ukraine, that and the fact that russian coalition has been very averse to losses explains such a low number.
Shoigu had to make up some number not to seem completely detached from reality, and to not let the Ukrainian published numbers dominate conversation at a time when reservists are starting to calculate their odds of coming back alive from Ukraine.
If you take Russian official figures at face values, then you should do the same with Ukraine: 9000 dead a month ago. So maybe over 10k now. I have a rule that Ukraine lies by a factor of 2 (and Russian by a factor of 10), so that would make it 20k. In the same ballpark as Russia. But the fact is that nobody outside Ukrainian and Russian top military and government officials knows the exact figures.