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Re:The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force by glogla on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:04AM (#30670055)
It has been two weeks and Russia lost 12000 soldiers and 1200 vehicles, while capturing one major city (Kherson). They have also made no gains in last week.

That is somewhat of a fiasco for someone who is supposed to have deployed order of magnitude more soldiers, tanks and airplanes than their opponent, and claimed they will win in few days.

EDIT: thanks for the correction, got the cities mixed up.

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Re:The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force by ciphol on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:31AM (#30670224)
Kharkhiv hasn't been captured. It hasn't even been surrounded. [1]

You are probably thinking of Kherson (a much smaller city, population 300k, in southern Ukraine).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...

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Re:The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force by fractallyte on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:28PM (#30675272)
And the number of injured soldiers is usually 2-3x greater. Which means that Russia potentially has up to 36,000 troops out of action - that's between a quarter and a third of their entire forces in Ukraine!
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Re:The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force by glogla on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:21PM (#30677741)
It is 12000 casualties, so that is already the sum of wounded, surrendered and dead.
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