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[–] tauren@lemm.ee -3 points 6 days ago

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Lol.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 181 points 1 week ago (18 children)

And they all died because one psychopathic old fart simply just wanted to take over majority of or the entire country of another for personal gain.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hey, that's not fair! Most of them were not killed, but only mutilated too much to be ableish-bodied enough for the russian army!

(Serious note: this is the casuality number, that includes deaths, but also soldiers with wounds that put them out of service, like lost legs)

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And then they send the mutilated back out into the trenches literally.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some they do, but actually most they don't. The casualty rate is about 40 000 per month, meaning that there are about 25 000 cripples per month. The Russian recruitment capacity is about 25 000 to 35 000 per month depending on the source, so there should be about one cripple for one four-limbed soldier if all of the cripples were sent to the front. In reality, their number is a tiny fraction of that, as we can see in the videos.

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[–] _druid@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 week ago (23 children)

You have more in common with those soldiers than you do with the warpigs pulling the strings that led them to their deaths.

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure everybody on these websites knows they're more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.

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[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PSA: Losses include dead AND wounded.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?

Tap for spoiler~58,000

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Plus about 300k "casualties", which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

have they looked under the couch?

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (13 children)

They throw their young generations into the meat grinder just to control resources. Putin couldn't find a way to pivot to new domestic products so now people get to die.

Fight war, not wars.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The world allowing the few to massacre the many for their personal gain has to be what we reject in the 21st century. We need to start arresting and trying every war monger for the murders they are.

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[–] lumony@lemmings.world 21 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Lost, huh?

Does that mean casualties? As in, not necessarily deaths?

Russia has lost 1,330 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone

I would assume the answer is 'yes.'

Fuck I hate the propaganda reporting on both sides.

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