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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by api on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:51AM (#36033007)
I've read that the whole strategy was to use it to bleed Russia.
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by fauxpause_ on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:54AM (#36033031)
Yep. They’ve been very transparent about it.
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by wsc981 on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:59AM (#36033110)
How many more young men does Ukraine have to expend in this war?
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by realPubkey on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:00PM (#36033126)
About 800000
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by TheFreim on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:01PM (#36033137)
Where did you get this number?
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by golergka on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:35PM (#36033591)
This is the right answer, shouldn't be downvoted. It's about the estimations I've seen in various sources.
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by _a_a_a_ on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:29PM (#36034244)
It should be downvoted because no reference was given. People need to be very cautious of accepting unsourced figures and facts.
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by jscipione on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:12PM (#36035425)
We can certainly take Joe Biden’s word that Russians have lost over 100k casualties in Bakhmut though, Joe Biden would never lie to the American people… ;)

Source: https://www.ibtimes.com/russia-has-suffered-100000-casualtie...

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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by hef19898 on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:53AM (#36033024)
Kind of the same idea the USSR applied during the defence of Stalingrad.
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by lisasays on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:07PM (#36033208)
Ironically enough.
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Re:Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction by Someone on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:34PM (#36034315)
I think that was different. Both Hitler and Stalin were emotionally obsessed with the idea of controlling Stalingrad at all cost and didn’t think rationally about it.

The argument here is that Russia is in the same boat, but Ukraine is acting rational and think this is the place where they have the best odds at winning the war. The ratio of “their losses” versus “our losses” is better for them than they can get elsewhere, and at the rate of progress Russia made, they won’t run out of land soon.

Of course, whether they’re right isn’t 100% certain. From what I read, Russia is losing relatively more inexperienced soldiers than Ukraine, and those are relatively easy to replace.

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