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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gizmondo on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:46PM (#43210434)
It's bad, but not as dire. Russian losses are very likely higher, but if I have to guess - multiples of 2 and above are just propaganda mixed with wishful thinking. They still didn't need to resort to further rounds of mobilization since 2022 or large scale usage of conscripts. And I don't understand what "North Korea" argument even is - Ukrainians would love to rely on someone else! But no one is willing to help in this department.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by neoromantique on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:47PM (#43210459)
Russian losses are significantly higher, from what I hear in first hand reports are 3-4x at the very conservative end.

What you are posting is not factual.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gizmondo on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:51PM (#43210539)
I mean, are Zelensky or Syrskyi willing to share truthful information with you in private? If so - good for you, otherwise I'm not sure what "first hand" reports you can use. I'm relying mostly on data about obituaries collected on both sides as proxy for true figures.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by neoromantique on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:55PM (#43210617)
first hand reports from friends who are fighting the war every day. I'm sure the very lacking obituaries that Russia is actively fighting to suppress will give you a better picture.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by adgjlsfhk1 on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:57PM (#43212008)
If you use Russian recruitment and army size numbers, you get much more realistic figures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja6-espHVSE. Russia is up to ~700k to 800k casualties Russia has lost ~3-4x more people than Ukraine so far.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by etc-hosts on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:13PM (#43214389)
Ukraine didn't release casualty figures for a long time (though to be fair, Russia government doesn't exactly post daily casualty figures either, the Russian casualty figure is divined by infering what we can from Russian media), the Western press released a figure for the Ukrainian forces, which is probably quite low, and the figure hasn't increased in almost a year.

It's sort of like how Western press has been claiming for over a year that 20,000 people have perished in Gaza, and the figure never goes up.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gizmondo on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:06PM (#43212172)
I think that's probably a good estimate for the Russian side, while 200k casualties total for Ukraine is a joke. Aren't even their official figures for wounded in the 400k range?
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by MaxPock on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:28PM (#43212517)
Do invading armies suffer more casualties than defenders ?
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by adgjlsfhk1 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:16AM (#43216216)
sometimes yes, sometimes no. In both US iraq wars, the US had way fewer casualties than Iraq. Invading is harder than defending, but a country won't invade unless they think they are likely to succeed with acceptable losses.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by lawn on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:13AM (#43216475)
It depends.

In this particular case Russia doesn't seem to care care about lives and uses WW1 style of waves of meat, which of course drastically increases losses

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by MaxPock on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:41AM (#43217336)
This is the most recorded war in history and I know someone(History Legends)offering a good amount if you can show him videos of these Russian meat wave attacks .
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