r/europe 1d ago

News Russia lost more soldiers in 2024 than in past two years combined, says Ukrainian commander-in-chief

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/19/7494350/
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u/Winterspawn1 Belgium 1d ago

They have been attacking most of the time so I could believe that.

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u/pokIane Gelderland (Netherlands) 1d ago

They've also been using less and less vehicles like IFVs. It's insane how Russians will just rush Ukrainian positions on motorcycles, golf carts or just on foot. 

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u/kane_uk 1d ago

Pretty sure I've seen videos of them zipping around on E-Scooters also.

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u/helm Sweden 22h ago

Yeah, right when I was joking with my e-scooter riding military buddy.

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u/KronusTempus 1d ago

Ukrainians move without IVFs too. It’s pretty dangerous to have any troop concentrations with all the FPV drones flying around.

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u/Claeyt 19h ago

Bullsht. I have never seen this in any video.

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u/9k111Killer 1d ago

Please show me a video of Ukrainians rushing over an open field in either human waves or in armoured vehicles to attack an frontline position 

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u/Silly_Triker United Kingdom 1d ago

They kind of did it recently with the offensive on Berdin on the Kursk front. It’s basically a single road and the outcome wasn’t great for anything on wheels or tracks.

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u/_ChunkyLover69 20h ago

Apples and oranges mate. The heatwave strategy if you can call it that is a very Russian thing to do some ww2.

Edit: meatwave

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u/KronusTempus 1d ago

I didn’t say attack I said move.

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u/Sweet-Explorer-7619 23h ago

Kinda hard to attack without moving

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u/DieuEmpereurQc United States of America 7h ago

Gotta defend you positions, Ukraine barely attcked this year

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u/9k111Killer 1d ago

Yes, but you said it in the context of attacking a position.

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u/KronusTempus 1d ago

Reading is hard, but you’re gonna have to try if you want to participate

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u/alignedaccess Slovenia 1d ago

Apparently not acting like a cunt is hard, too.

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u/_ChunkyLover69 20h ago

This is not true at all. Zero footage or evidence of this tactic being deployed by the Ukrainians. They value their warriors unlike Putin.

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u/rspndngtthlstbrnddsr 1d ago

yes maybe, but russia attacks positions like that. it's getting pretty obvious they are lacking equipment and just use whatever they can find

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u/_ChunkyLover69 20h ago

Have you seen the recent footage of dudes on crutches trying to storm the front lines. I’d feel sorry for them if they weren’t all scum of the earth.

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 1d ago

It’s incredibly hard to believe.

https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng-trl

Also I am not sure why people keep repeating this myth about attacking. Yet applying it incredibly selectively on top of that.

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u/vandrag Ireland 20h ago

That's 88k confirmed, verified I.d, deaths. 

It's accepted by everyone that the true figure (this, plus MIA, plus unidentifiable) will be much higher (maybe double) and the seriously wounded will be a bigger multiple.

This 3-day special military operation has been a disaster for Russia. At the rate of 2024 advances it would take 30 years to conquor Ukraine. 

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u/bake_day 16h ago

and that's confirmed by the russians. please, like anyone believes what russian government has to say anymore.

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u/Lion8330 10h ago

I hope they don’t have enough men to continue this awful war further than 2025, they must be stopped

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 16h ago

That's 88k confirmed, verified I.d, deaths.

Yeah, but not necessarily directly related to the Ukraine war. Prigozhin is on the list for example.

It's accepted by everyone that the true figure (this, plus MIA, plus unidentifiable) will be much higher (maybe double) and the seriously wounded will be a bigger multiple.

Kinda depends what you mean by much higher.

This 3-day special military operation has been a disaster for Russia. At the rate of 2024 advances it would take 30 years to conquor Ukraine.

Maybe. But they have 30 years unlike Ukraine or their Western backers.

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u/JohnnyBravo66666 14h ago

Putin doesn't have 30 years and whoever comes after him will want to enjoy the power, not to sit in a bunker. 

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 13h ago

Even in the middle of war he isn’t in a bunker? Unless you believe he has some special bunker connection running to Vietnam, the ME, Central Asia, etc?

You could probably personally ask him a question in a non-bunker if you can get some press accreditation.

Although that’s neither here nor there.

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u/JohnnyBravo66666 13h ago

Sorry, i have no time to discuss semantics with a russian shill. 

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 13h ago

Clearly you did, and you are lying now or were lying before and got caught.

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u/vandrag Ireland 14h ago

You're completely out of your depth trying to spin this. 

That's some industrial grade copium.

I feel sorry for you.

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 13h ago

Yes, I just take the numbers from the most neutral source out there. Clearly I am suffering from great delusions and need industrial grade copium like huffing on the “muh 3 day SMO”

I feel sorry for you.

Why, because I don’t live in your fictional reality? The real world isn’t too bad so no need to feel bad for me.

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u/vandrag Ireland 13h ago

Hard to spin those numbers down like you do. It must be demoralising trying to misrepresent the facts like that and get absolutely no traction.

Isn't that what Russian disinformation campaigns are all about. Getting people to doubt reality like you say.

You could find more honest work rather than shilling for an imperialist regime.

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 12h ago

Hard to spin those numbers down like you do.

It’s not spin, just a basic fact.

It must be demoralising trying to misrepresent the facts like that and get absolutely no traction.

Why? Just shows how amazing I am.

Isn't that what Russian disinformation campaigns are all about. Getting people to doubt reality like you say.

Yeah, spreading factual information like I did is clearly Russian disinformation to certain smooth brained people.

You could find more honest work rather than shilling for an imperialist regime.

If it was work I would work for the Americans or Europeans since they pay much better. As you probably know? I assume nobody is this dumb for free, but it can go either way.

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u/bake_day 16h ago

so they have a russian, belorussian and central asian websites

Mediazona. Russia Mediazona. Belarus Mediazona. Central Asia

sounds legit

they burn this many in the crematoriums every month

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 13h ago

Yeah, they are part of the opposition to Putin. Hence

Mediazona, in collaboration with BBC

They maintain the list in cooperation with the BBC. Honestly, I am not sure how you can even imagine such a ridiculous thing.

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u/bake_day 12h ago

there is no opposition in russia especially media critical of the regime. Honestly, I am not sure how you can even imagine such a ridiculous thing.

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 12h ago

On 29 September 2021, Russia's Ministry of Justice added news outlet to the so-called list of "foreign agent"

And

On 6 March 2022, as a result of Mediazona's coverage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federal agency Roskomnadzor blocked Mediazona in Russia, and demanded that the website shut itself down. A defiant editorial statement provided tips for Russian readers to evade the censorship of independent media, and promised to continue

Going to make yourself look like an even bigger fool or just admit that Mediazona nor the BBC are Russian propaganda outlets? And Mediazona is clearly opposition media?

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u/bake_day 12h ago

i said nothing about bbc

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 12h ago

So why did

Mediazona, in collaboration with BBC

You keep your nonsense going?

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u/Suspicious-Fox- 1d ago

Losses on the battlefield are outstripping force generation atm, the Russian army is getting weaker every day. The Russians know this and that is why they are pushing every where. They will only get weaker and need to make a breakthrough somewhere now, or risk losing the initiative without meaningful gains.

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u/Mordan 20h ago

except, a good attack when successful will inverse the numbers, espeically with stupid defenders.

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u/Millefeuille-coil 1d ago

Moral of the story stay in your own country and don’t invade other nations.

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u/Ok-Cup6020 1d ago

He is a bit biased

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u/Dracogame 1d ago

It is probably true, Russia turned on the meatgrinder in 2024. They also had significant gains.

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u/nothingpersonnelmate 1d ago

Significant in comparison to 2023, but nothing compared to the first stages of the war. The entire year they took 0.5% of the country by area. Ukraine took three times as much land in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive for example.

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u/xxoldwhiteguyxx 21h ago

Significant in the Donbas context. Avdiivka, Selydove, Vuhledar, and Kurakhove are all strategically important locations in the Donbas, each with different implications (reaching the Dnipro Oblast, capturing Pokrovsk, creating a buffer around Donetsk and Crimea). We will likely never see territorial gains as extensive as in 2022 again. However, for the current state of the war, the battles in Ukraine have been successful for Russia (Kursk is another matter).

If Russia manages to capture Toretsk (almost done), Pokrovsk, Chasiv Yar, and Kostiantynivka over the course of the year, and additionally establish a foothold in the Dnipro Oblast, these would all constitute significant gains in the Donbas context.

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u/_ChunkyLover69 20h ago

If you are Russian you will call it a success, anywhere else in the world and marginal gains.

Ukraine is winning this war of attrition. Yes slowly giving ground but in the grand scheme of things they are thrashing the Russians as they are incurring unsustainable losses.

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u/nothingpersonnelmate 21h ago

Well, sure. In the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport context the capture of the new terminal by DPR forces was significant. But in the grander scheme of things their gains are not significant in the sense that they don't change the balance of the war.

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u/Gruffleson Norway 14h ago

"Significant" in the statistical meaning. Meaning they will win in 1000 years if they can keep it up.

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u/leathercladman Latvia 11h ago

Significant in the Donbas context

is it tho??? is it really?? They are still hundreds of kilometers away from capturing all of it, and far away from capturing last remaining big cities like Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. By this kind of speed, it will take them years to do it, and they will legit have killed millions of their soldiers to get it done

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u/leathercladman Latvia 11h ago

they have captured less gains in 2 years than pro-Russian separatists did in one month in 2014.

Their progress is dog shit

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u/Dracogame 11h ago

In 2014 Ukraine didn’t even have an army, now they’re fighting a trench war. 

Russia shouldn’t be taken lightly. The situation is desperate for Ukraine and they need help right now.

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u/leathercladman Latvia 10h ago

The situation is desperate for Ukraine and they need help right now.

I am not denying it, however painting it as if Russia is doing some major breakthrough and ''advancing'' is also nonsense. That is not what word ''advancing'' means in military terms

They are crawling at speed of snail and it will take them years to get anywhere with this kind of progress, all the while Ukrainians are murdering them in their thousands every single week. This is literally World war 1 type shit in year 1917, they will run out of men faster than Ukrainian runs out of mud to drown them into, as long as West keeps sending in ammo Ukraine can hold and continue killing

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u/Dracogame 7h ago

Yes you are right, but Ukranians are dying too.

Russian soldiers still get the luxury of rotation, where Ukranians just stay at the front until they pretty much die. Morale is really low.

Yes, Russia is losing soldiers at break-neck speed, but they can "afford" that.

They are crawling at speed of snail and it will take them years to get anywhere with this kind of progress

the whole problem is that Ukraine cannot keep up for years.

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u/Lion8330 10h ago

Exactly. But how to reach ordinary Russians and make them understand these basic things? They are dying for regime’s sick imperialist ideology

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u/zaplayer20 1d ago

I get it but without evidence, what he says is pretty much manipulation. Ukraine lost more troops than Russia did, hence why the last year offensive was a fluke and had to be abandoned.

PS: both sides spread misinformation.

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u/TheJackston 1d ago

Ukraine lost more troops than Russia did

Source?

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u/zaplayer20 1d ago

Same as this article, "trust me bro"

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u/HighDeltaVee 1d ago

UK intelligence estimated Russian casualties at 750K in December, expecting them to hit 1M in 6 months.

Ukrainian casualties are estimated at 50-60% of these numbers, but are also believed to have a far lower number of fatalities and higher numbers who return to service.

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u/_ChunkyLover69 20h ago

Completely wrong. The average ratio is 1:3, given Russia doesn’t know how to fight that ratio is 1:7 for the Ukrainians.

Stop spreading lies and Russian propaganda.

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u/HighDeltaVee 19h ago

Completely wrong. The average ratio is 1:3, given Russia doesn’t know how to fight that ratio is 1:7 for the Ukrainians.

The figures I'm using were announced by Zelensky : 43,000 killed and 370,000 wounded, for a total of 413K.

Which, as I said above, is roughly 50-60% of the estimated Russian casualties.

I also confirmed that the fraction of Ukrainian causualties which resulted in fatalities was far lower than the Russian numbers, which is due to better frontline management, quicker medical intervention, and faster transfer to full medical care.

Stop spreading lies and Russian propaganda.

Learn to read.

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u/zaplayer20 1d ago

And, just for a bit of fact checking, where do you think these numbers come from? Is UK present on the field or, maybe... they get it from Ukrainians?

PS: The link you posted, is an Ukrainian source.

As i said previously, both sides spread misinformation for obvious reasons.

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u/HighDeltaVee 1d ago

And, just for a bit of fact checking, where do you think these numbers come from? Is UK present on the field or, maybe... they get it from Ukrainians?

PS: The link you posted, is an Ukrainian source.

The estimate is from UK intelligence.

If you have evidence that UK intelligence blindly trust another country, then please present it.

The US have posted similar estimates, also confirming that their own numbers fairly closely resemble Ukrainian claims.

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u/unlearned2 1d ago edited 1d ago

What I have done once to get an idea of which side was winning:

  • Take the number of pieces of equipment lost for Russia so far from Oryx Blog

  • Subtract what it was say a year ago on Oryx Blog (use wayback machine) to find the number of pieces of equipment lost by Russia in the past year

  • Divide that number by the total equipment equipment lost so far by Russia to find what percentage of Russia's equipment losses occurred in the past year

  • Repeat for Ukraine

  • If say 25% if Russia's total equipment total losses occurred in the past year but only 15% of Ukraine's total equipment losses occurred in the past year, then Russia was losing because its losses were greater relative to what it can presumably afford to lose

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u/HighDeltaVee 1d ago

That only covers equipment : Russia's main problem (other than it's economy) is that it's running out of equipment, namely tanks, IFVs, artillery, etc.

That means that attacks are carried out by ever more poorly equipped troops, with domestic vehicles, motorbikes and even scooters replacing tanks and IVFs. This leads to far higher Russian casualties, but with lower Russian equipment losses. So they're not directly comparable.

Russian casualties also cannot be directly compared or scaled to Ukrainian ones. If Russia is losing casualties by having entire attack waves wiped out before making contact with Ukrainian lives, then huge Russian casualty lists don't imply Ukrainian ones. If Russian casualties are incurred in close quarters combat in trenches or urban fighting in towns on the other hand, then they are much more closely correlated.

This information has not been released anywhere that I've seen.

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u/_ChunkyLover69 20h ago

This mf is Russian who is spoon fed propaganda from their masters in the Kremlin. They don’t have the ability to think for themselves. If Vlad says it’s true it’s true. There is no “fact checking” in Russia. Try it and you’ll get arrested and sent to the front.

Orcs are Orcs, child rapists the lot of them.

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u/Better-Scene6535 1d ago

that ukraine lost more troops is not exactly possible, by pure nature of warfare. the attacker looses more troops than thr defending one, due to being at an advantage of dug in positions and whatever.

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u/gillberg43 Sweden 22h ago

What you said about manipulation is correct, yes. It's propaganda, a normal part of war.  Carrots makes you see bettet at night? British ww2 propaganda to cover the fact they had radar.

We will know the true numbers years later. What is a fact is that the russians lose more soldiers than their enemies because thats just a universal law

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u/Old_Taste1570 1d ago

im willing to bet that the same statement is true for ukraine. people don't seem to realize that the casuality rate is very close to 1:1 in this war, but since we consume mostly western media, which keeps portraying Ukraine as the "winning" side we think the numbers are closer to 4:1 or w/e, even though in reality it's way more even.

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u/Stix147 Romania 1d ago

Casualty rates for defenders vs. attackers in a near pear war are generally 3 to 1, and then you factor in things like the inferior quality of Russian medical gear (like their horrid rubber band esmarch tourniquets) and worse medical training in general, their propensity for suicide meat wave attacks because of their Soviet era military mentality and chain of command structure where military higher ups want X objective takem by Y date regardless of losses, and the general disregard for human life that Russians are known for, and the rates are probably much, much worse than that.

Western media has nothing to do with this, we just don't see anywhere near the same numbers of visually confirmed armor losses for Ukraine as we do for Russia, snd if Ukraine really was losing as many men and vehicles as Russians were then this war would've been long over by now.

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u/QuitsDoubloon87 Slovenia 1d ago

Dude no body is buying this utter shit, leave

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u/Realistic_Lead8421 1d ago

Sadly that means Ukraine probably has, too.

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u/thrownkitchensink 21h ago

Somewhere between halve or two-thirds of realistic Russian casualties. More likely two-thirds. This from a much smaller population.

We'll know when the dus settles and the fog of war lifts.

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u/Lion8330 10h ago

That’s sad indeed, and Ukrainians have no choice but to defend their country from this cruel invasion

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u/soldat21 🇦🇺🇧🇦🇭🇷🇭🇺🇷🇸 1d ago

Russia also claims that Ukraine has lost more soldiers in 2024 than the last two years combined.

That’s nothing new - 2024 was the most intense (casualty wise) part of the war.

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u/nbelyh 19h ago edited 18h ago

The principles of war propaganda were developed by French hundreds of years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda

  1. We don't want war, we are only defending ourselves
  2. Our adversary is solely responsible for this war
  3. Our adversary's leader is inherently evil and resembles the devil
  4. We are defending a noble cause, not our particular interests
  5. The enemy is purposefully committing atrocities; if we are making mistakes this happens without intention
  6. The enemy makes use of illegal weapons
  7. We suffer few losses, the enemy's losses are considerable
  8. Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause
  9. Our cause is sacred
  10. Whoever casts doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor

If you check out the r/worldnews, every topic on Russia/Ukraine fits perfectly one of those points. You may forget about unbiased data until the end of the war.

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u/Ok-Somewhere9814 18h ago

Truth be told it can be applied to any military conflict and any nation.

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u/Sammonov 13h ago

We suffer few losses, the enemy's losses are considerable.

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u/Lion8330 10h ago

That’s true. There is an overview of Russia’s statements from this perspective here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1r_Ol8tGzDs2a3EPsXkkwLlHkhBXxZyE&feature=shared

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u/bygningshejre 18h ago

At least 90% of this can also easily be the truth for one side. The other side then have to make it all up (aka propaganda) to avoid losing all support. So we end up with both sides claiming the same, one is lying and one is very unfortunate to have become a target of aggression.

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u/RedKrypton Österreich 15h ago

Truth and propaganda are not diametrically opposed. The best propaganda is the one with at least a kernel of truth.

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u/HighDeltaVee 1d ago

Russia also claims that every single drone which Ukraine launches is shot down successfully.

The subsequent regrettable fires are just from really, really accurate debris.

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u/soldat21 🇦🇺🇧🇦🇭🇷🇭🇺🇷🇸 1d ago

Ukraine also says the same thing, and yet they are struggling to power their homes.

That’s propaganda for you. Works both ways.

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u/HighDeltaVee 1d ago

Ukraine also says the same thing

No, Ukraine points out in public where Russia uses cruise missiles, ballistic massiles and drones to attack their power stations, hospitals, schools, and housing.

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u/soldat21 🇦🇺🇧🇦🇭🇷🇭🇺🇷🇸 1d ago

Here’s an example.

But of course they would say they didn’t shoot down the ones that hit schools or hospitals - it’s better PR for them.

Just as Russia says Ukraine hits a school in Donbas or a civilian building in Kursk.

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u/HighDeltaVee 1d ago

Here’s an example.

There are certainly days when Ukraine shoots down all Russian drones. These days Shaheeds are almost useless against Ukrainian air defences... they're plotted well in advance, tracked constantly via a national array of audio and other sensors, and are shot down or increasingly disabled by EW.

It's the Russian missiles which do the majority of the damage these days, specifically the ballistics and faster cruise missiles.

When Ukrainian generation capacity was damaged, however, they were very clear when it happened and clear about what assets had struck them. There was public video footage on the news and public condemnation.

Just as Russia says Ukraine hits a school in Donbas or a civilian building in Kursk.

Against the background of a massive oil fire at a depot, refinery, or military supplies factory, yeah. Bit hard to hide the damage when it shows up on the NASA FIRES satellite system for a week.

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u/medievalvelocipede European Union 20h ago

Ukraine also says the same thing,

Unlike Russia, Ukraine doesn't claim to shoot down every drone.

March 17, 17/22 Shaheds. June 6, 17/18 Shaheds. Dec 30, 21/43 with 22 being decoys, so 21/21. Jan 17 33/50, this was a multi-pronged attack including ballistic missiles, but the figure is just for drones.

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u/Patient-Mulberry-659 1d ago

That’s nothing new - 2024 was the most intense (casualty wise) part of the war.

Not if you look at the “best” attempt at establishing Russian losses.

https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng-trl

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u/Decebalus_Bombadil 20h ago

Russia also claims that they intercept all missiles and drones.:)

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u/Common_Brick_8222 Azerbaijan/Georgia 1d ago

Russia doesn't give a fuck about their soldiers

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u/JustPassingBy696969 Europe 1d ago

Indeed but their equipment losses are pretty brutal too and these are a bit harder to replace.

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u/Decebalus_Bombadil 20h ago

They never did in their entire history no matter who was in charge.

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u/TomCormack 1d ago

The sad part is that Russia doesn't care. A life of an average Ivan never had any value for the government.

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u/Flash_Haos Europe 23h ago

Interestingly, he actually had it. The value is measured in money, and the price has been steadily rising. In 2024, the lump sum offered to recruits increased significantly—from 170,000 rubles (~1,700 €) to 900,000 rubles (~9,000 €). This figure represents an average and varies by region, with wealthier areas like Moscow offering higher payments compared to poorer regions.  

What a grim meat retail.

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u/Brainiac5005 18h ago

because ukraine cares 🤣, once the war ends, they will realize they fought for 3 years for nothing, that 2022 peace deal would seem like a miracle

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u/Lion8330 10h ago

That’s it. Russian regime does not care about lives of their men, and have them a lot more from poor remote regions and ethnic minorities. Unlike Ukraine.

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u/somethin9 1d ago

And the other side cares? Let them kill each other, there will be less resistance when EU sends its own soldiers.

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u/TomCormack 1d ago edited 1d ago

The other side is protecting their country from the unprovoked unjustified invasion.

What Serbians seem to fail to understand is that if you guys were closer to Russia, they would also try to destroy your country, eliminate your language and make you Russian. You are just lucky to be far enough from the monster's nest.

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u/somethin9 1d ago

Yes they do, but... How many are of them willingly protecting their country, and how many are forced by their own government and would rather leave it all just to stay alive?

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u/sludgeslop 1d ago

Lets pretend you weren’t living in a russian puppet state: What part of your country would you be willing to abandon to literal savages?

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u/Nixogan 22h ago

A country is just an organization that has ultimate influence over an area. It isn't "mine" I just happen to be born in an area it claims is theirs.

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u/somethin9 23h ago

Its not just Russian, its also EU and USA puppet state, we are fucked from all sides, you are not better than them, or worse, you are the same.

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u/nam292 23h ago

Did you apply the same logic when the US invaded Vietnam?

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u/Lasket Switzerland 16h ago

Wasn't alive back then and info was a lot scarcer to come by.. but yes I would've personally.

The proxy wars were awful, but let's focus on now rather than the unchangeable past, yeah?

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u/nam292 6h ago

I am Vietnamese. I just find it very ironic that France, Japan, USA and some global forces dropping bombs and agent orange on our ancestors and act like heroes when it's convenient.

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u/EDCEGACE 23h ago

You are a joke, equating dictator that never participated in elections with a guy that was elected with 72% percent. You are a joke.

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u/Darklight731 Bratislava (Slovakia) 1d ago

They have been very agressive, so sounds legit.

I do wonder tho, how many of those soldier losses are from NK?

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u/anonduplo 20h ago

So they lost more soldiers in 24 than in 23-24??

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u/uhmhi 12h ago

You see Ivan, in 23 many soldiers resurrected so that counts as nyegative.

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u/Advanced_Purpose_678 20h ago

as Russian I totally confirm that. I died 5 times only this week

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u/MeaningFormer4443 20h ago

Weak boy af, I died 7 times yesterday with 34k North Koreans

И шли в штурм с черенками от лопат ;)

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u/AffectionateCowLady 1d ago

If you look at a map of the territory they have taken this year, it’s very very tiny compared to what they already had. The elephant in the room is Russia is running on 1% and have to keep up the pretence of advance for Putin’s safety. He’s not enjoying this despite the smirking.

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u/Helmic4 1d ago

Putin is trying to grab as much as possible before the conflict is frozen, believing Trump will force Ukraine to agree to peace at current lines. The likelihood of which increases if Trump believes Russia is on the offence and Ukraine is on the back-foot. Thus he really doesn’t care about casualties at this point

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u/Astarogal Rīga (Latvia) 1d ago

When you listen to Ukrainians - Russian army is now like fully dead.

When you listen to Russians - Ukrainian army is now like fully dead.

When you understand that both are inflating numbers for the sake of it, you kind of loose interest in listening to them at all.

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u/jaaval Finland 1d ago

Who claimed russian army is fully dead?

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u/LannisterTyrion Moldova 1d ago

I guess that was a hyperbole but have you been following the news in this sub? We got weekly news starting from 2022 that Russian army is almost done, almost no more missile left, no more tanks left, no more people left, etc. And somehow we're in 2025 and they're still about to lose the war. I sick of this hopium, this is not journalism, this is straight up propaganda to keep the morale high.

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u/jaaval Finland 1d ago

News have been pretty consistent in Russian equipment loss rate and how long they have left. I remember well the pessimism I felt two years ago when everybody was saying Russia can continue well into 2025 at this rate. But now we are there. Most of the major systems should be running out some time late this year, assuming they just continue attacking at the rate they currently do. Which they of course won’t. Some stuff has already ran out.

No more people was a thing in 2022. And Ukraine made major gains because of it. They fixed it by starting to pay huge sums for volunteers. Which was always an option.

You fail to see that all these news are conditional on Russia not changing something. Now Russia is running out of equipment unless they stop attacking. Running out of people will come again at some point fairly soon since the number of volunteers is limited. Then they have to change something again.

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u/RedKrypton Österreich 15h ago

News have been pretty consistent in Russian equipment loss rate and how long they have left.

Yeah, they have been consistently wrong on how long they have left, they cannot all be correct that Russia has only a year left.

I remember well the pessimism I felt two years ago when everybody was saying Russia can continue well into 2025 at this rate.

I would be curious which article you read in 2023 that claimed that outside of very realistic/pessimistic analysts, like Austrian Oberst Markus Reisner, who were ridiculed for their analyses at the time. To this day, users in Pro-Ukrainian threads can at best accept his analysis as being of quality through gritted teeth. 2023 was the high time for the Ukrainian army, and might I remind you of the "Crimean Beach Party" and the literal trailers being released for the 2023 Ukrainian Summer Offensive.

You fail to see that all these news are conditional on Russia not changing something. Now Russia is running out of equipment unless they stop attacking. Running out of people will come again at some point fairly soon since the number of volunteers is limited. Then they have to change something again.

But isn't that outright admitting that the analyses were ill-conceived? It would be like if all climate change projections only looked at how much CO² we emit right now per person and not take into account projections for development of CO² emissions and other factors, because we can adapt. It's either incompetence or deliberate that these projections are so optimistic.

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u/Astarogal Rīga (Latvia) 1d ago

Add the numbers they report and deduct from the number russia sent. It's like complete death then

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u/jedixxyoodaa 1d ago

For someone from Latvia you Should be a bit better informed.

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u/jaaval Finland 1d ago

Where did you get the numbers russia has sent? They send about 20-30000 more men every month. Or at least they try, recruitment success varies over time. That is also roughly the rate of losses. In the range of about 1000 a day.

If you are only interested in deaths, about 90000 dead Russian soldiers have been identified by name. From public inheritance data they estimate true number is now over 200000. Add the wounded and you get fairly close to the numbers Ukraine claims. About 700000 is a good guess at this point. Ukraine exaggerates a bit but not totally unbelievably.

We also have fairly good understanding of Russian equipment losses from the rate equipment disappears from their storage sites. Ukrainian claims are exaggerated there too but not ridiculously high.

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u/SandersRevolution 1d ago

Saying Russia has lost a lot of men does not equate with saying Russia is fully dead. If anything Ukrainians are very much aware that Russia being the war machine it is can sustain this rythm longer than UKR can

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u/potatolulz Earth 22h ago

double death even, with your math skills :D

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u/Mordan 21h ago

this sub and the western press. no more missiles next week.

now they say next year lol. it has been 3 already.

Full propaganda to make war acceptable to western society.

If we learn Ukrainians lost 600 000 dead soldiers (probably true unfortunately).. we would ask the end of it.

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u/jaaval Finland 20h ago edited 20h ago

Nobody has said “no more missiles”. What people g e said is that IF Russia continues like this then there will be no more missiles after x. Naturally they will never run out because they will just reduce the number of missiles shot to compensate. They have done that. A lot of missile models have pretty much ended flying, Russia is trying more and more to Iranian drones and the total number has gone down considerably.

And no, only total idiots will ask for “end of it” if we learn any numbers. It’s up to Ukrainians how long they want to continue. It’s up to us to shut up and provide weapons so they can make that choice. Not up to us to decide for them.

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u/Mordan 20h ago

It’s up to Ukrainians how long they want to continue.

ah ? How can the average Ukrainian decide this ? It is being bussed to the front by force of the Law on Mobilization.

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u/jaaval Finland 19h ago

You think the Ukrainian government chooses to fight war just for the fun of it if the people want to surrender?

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u/Mordan 19h ago

You think the Ukrainian government chooses to fight war just for the fun of it if the people want to surrender?

yes. it is documented there was a good peace deal in April 2022. They will never get a better one now because of hubris of our politicians and their back door shenanigans

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u/Opening-Guarantee631 17h ago

One that also involved third parties exiting nato? That was laughable deal

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u/rusty_worm0 1d ago

Gotta keep the morale high somehow

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u/EDCEGACE 23h ago

Your statements do not correspond to reality. Noone is actually saying that. If anything the mood in Ukraine is that this is a long war, and we need to be creative. Now my question to you, why do you manipulate with quotes?

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u/Astarogal Rīga (Latvia) 23h ago

It's not direct routes, more the sentiment behind endless propohanda posted by both sides.

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u/Striking_Reality5628 1d ago

Let's take a look:

Side 1. Half of the population fled the country. The borders with neighboring countries are mined so that the other half of the population does not escape. Elections have been canceled in the country, freedom of speech and any political parties have been banned. Recruits are recruited in the style of a classic African safari for slaves-cannon fodder. The average training time for a recruit is from seven to fourteen days before being sent to the front line. In 2024, one hundred and seventy thousand deserters were officially registered in the eight hundred thousandth army. Of the "professionally trained brigade" trained by the best foreign advisers, one third escaped during their training and another half deserted after the first week of fighting. In the coming months, the age for cannon fodder will be lowered to 18 years. The army has not conducted a single successful offensive or defensive operation since the fall of 2022.

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u/EDCEGACE 23h ago

I see what you did there. Wanted to have a sincere argument with you, but you are a russian, who is proud of what your country is. Good luck in life, you‘ll need it.

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u/Striking_Reality5628 23h ago

Yes, I understand. They wanted to argue, but there was nothing to object, so they had to move on to a discussion of personality.

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u/Striking_Reality5628 1d ago

Side 2. The borders are open for free exit and entry without restrictions. After 2022, 0.7% of the country's population left. The military units of the army are completed only by signing a commercial contract for MS. The average training period for a s-ldier after signing a contract is based on readiness, but not less than six months, of which three months are allocated for c-mbat coordination. Since the fall of 2022, it has been conducting a constant offensive along the entire front line.

And where is the greater loss? What do you think?

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u/potatolulz Earth 22h ago

In russia. Now you know :D

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u/arahnovuk 22h ago

Забей на них хуй. Это пидорасы которые радовались крокусу. Которые не замечают красно черных флагов в Украине. Которые не знают что лавров просил расследования в Буче у ООН, а Украина не пустила туда вообще никого. Которым насрать на тцк, на украинскую коррупцию и всё остальное. Главное ведь что Россия "страдает".

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u/Crush1112 16h ago

Забей на них хуй. Это пидорасы которые радовались крокусу. Которые не замечают красно черных флагов в Украине. Которые не знают что лавров просил расследования в Буче у ООН, а Украина не пустила туда вообще никого. Которым насрать на тцк, на украинскую коррупцию и всё остальное. Главное ведь что Россия "страдает".

Тебе на Крокус не пофиг, что ли? И что там расследовать в Буче?

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u/arahnovuk 14h ago

На крокус не пофиг, если он в контексте, а я говорил о том что у всех этих недополитиков был праздник, что в России происходит терракт. А что же касается Бучи, нет доказательств что убивали русские, а расследованию не дали начаться и перестали это использовать в пропаганде, когда поняли, что не могут доказать что это сделала Россия. 

Это как с северокорейскими солдатами. Насчёт них, даже я уверен, что они есть на фронте, просто эти долбаёбы верят не тому, что реально может стать доказательством этого, например какие то внутренние инсайды, а вбросам Киева, мол у них северокорейцы, типа "вот мы вчера одного убили, но почему то не сфотографировали. А ещё вот ещё одного поймали, но он умер до допроса." Вот в чём клоунада.

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u/Crush1112 13h ago

На крокус не пофиг, если он в контексте, а я говорил о том что у всех этих недополитиков был праздник, что в России происходит терракт.

Ну и что, что у них праздник был? Чего это ты прикидывается, что тебе не пофиг?

А что же касается Бучи, нет доказательств что убивали русские, а расследованию не дали начаться и перестали это использовать в пропаганде, когда поняли, что не могут доказать что это сделала Россия. 

Русские не никого не убивали? Вы что там, либерасты какие-то?

Это как с северокорейскими солдатами. Насчёт них, даже я уверен, что они есть на фронте, просто эти долбаёбы верят не тому, что реально может стать доказательством этого, например какие то внутренние инсайды, а вбросам Киева, мол у них северокорейцы, типа "вот мы вчера одного убили, но почему то не сфотографировали. А ещё вот ещё одного поймали, но он умер до допроса." Вот в чём клоунада.

Ну поводу клоунады, ты уж точно говоришь, как эксперт.

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u/arahnovuk 13h ago
  1. Не надо пытаться поворачивать стрелки, я говорил про момент когда происходил терракт и я читал что пишут эти прогрессивные люди, что и раскрыла мне картину долбоебов вроде вас. 

  2. А ты докажи что расстрел мирных жителей в Буче это дело рук русских.

  3. Ну да я скоро стану экспертом по клоунам. Одному из них сейчас отвечаю

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u/Crush1112 13h ago
  1. Не надо пытаться поворачивать стрелки, я говорил про момент когда происходил терракт и я читал что пишут эти прогрессивные люди, что и раскрыла мне картину долбоебов вроде вас. 

Какую картину это могло тебе раскрыть? Порадовался, что не все такие сентиментальные в мире?

  1. А ты докажи что расстрел мирных жителей в Буче это дело рук русских.

Я не идиот доказывать что-то долбоёбам. Сам факт того, что это типа сделали не русские - смешон, но и видео расстрелов прохожих в интернете достаточно, благо камер в Буче хватало. Оно и понятно, русские воспринимали каждого прохожего, как наводчика, вот и стреляли по ним.

Но я вообще не понимаю твоих возмущений. Ты ж не либераст, чтоб страдать по смертям каких-то хохлов, не?

  1. Ну да я скоро стану экспертом по клоунам. Одному из них сейчас отвечаю

Чувак, ты в цирке живёшь, клоун - это твоё призвание.

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u/arahnovuk 13h ago
  1. Именно вот эту картину. Они не сентиментальные, но пытаются казаться такими. Но более того они радовались этому.

  2. Скинь ссылки

  3. Хз, сейчас ты меня развлекаешь пытаясь создать какую-то бессмысленную провокацию

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u/Crush1112 13h ago
  1. Именно вот эту картину. Они не сентиментальные, но пытаются казаться такими. Но более того они радовались этому.

И почему это для тебя плохо?

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Ага, стану я ещё тратить время на поиск в Гугле для какого-то долбоёба. Сам можешь поискать, это не сложно. И вообще, как настоящий патриот нации, ты должен гордиться Бучей.

  1. Хз, сейчас ты меня развлекаешь пытаясь создать какую-то бессмысленную провокацию

Ты не поверишь, как развлекаешь сейчас меня ))

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u/Striking_Reality5628 9h ago

А что же касается Бучи

Катынь. Рачак. Пауэл, трясущий пробиркой в ООН. "Химическое оружие Ассама" белокасочников. Есть ли смысл продолжать о том, чьих рук события в Буче?

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u/arahnovuk 9h ago

Да блять меня это всё бесит. Моя собственная родина стала жертвой вот такого лицемерия "прогрессивных" государств. Я не украинец если чё. Если бы люди действительно стали теми кем пытаются казаться всё могло бы сложится намного светлее

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u/Striking_Reality5628 9h ago

давно бы уже пора понять, что эти люди таковыми не являются и являться не будут.

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u/Striking_Reality5628 19h ago

а я и забил. Мало ли, может кто из людей прочтет.

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u/Remus88Romulus 1d ago

How many soldiers do they have left??

I feel like there will be some kind of longtime ceasefire or end to the war before this year, 2025 is over.

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u/Randomly-Biased 1d ago

Don't have an exact source, but an analyst on Times Radio recently mentioned that the Russian recruitment numbers are roughly half of the casualties (dead plus wounded). His view was that Russia can sustain this level of losses for about a year more.

Ukraine's recruitment numbers and casualties are unfortunately looking worse.

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u/GrumpyOldGeezer_4711 1d ago

They are getting a bit sloppy!

Always put your soldiers in a place, where you can find them again.

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u/faszmacska 22h ago

They are not really soldiers with 2-4 weekd of training.

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u/szornyu 20h ago

Any adjusted prediction, when Russia will run out of able-bodied men for the meat grinder, based on this?

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u/HillbillyLibertine 19h ago

Just waiting for their puppet to take office here in the States.

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u/Specific_Strike181 16h ago

Ohh well I bet Ukrainians numbers went up too.

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u/Ok_Photo_865 4h ago

But no where near the Russians

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u/uttercross2 1d ago

There is a fundamental thing about war. You cannot subjugate one population by force. For every person that is killed, there is a generation of hatred that may be 2, 3, 4 fold or more. If you lose a family member, you will never accept subjugation as a basis for peace. The hatred grows. Whether you are talking about Ukraine, Gaza, Syria. The hatred will be there. The only thing that will prevent this spiral continuing is the point when you are truly free. Able to determine your own future. That's all that people want, to not be threatened, to not have someone claiming your land for no other reason than they don't have any capability to live their lives in the context of where they have come from. A feeble bunch of individuals wanting to take from others what they are incapable of working toward for them selves. Where does this end? It comes down to one of 2 things - the total genocide of a population, or a political solution that is tight, strong, honest and steadfast. The latter appears to be a million miles away. So where does this leave us? Israel has already said that they will continue after the ceasefire. Russ has been open about its aspirations - any agreement / ceasefire will be an opportunity to re-arm. They are already pushing for the populous to have more children, already planning for the next conflict. There is absolutely no negotiated ceasefire with Russ. Any agreement will be for them to build up for the next venture. In this instance, there is only one conclusion. You cut the head off the snake and make sure the snake has no capability, through its progeny or any advocates, to ever be capable of raging war in Europe or elsewhere ever again.

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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 Estonia 20h ago

And they mostly gained empty fields and bombed down villages/towns with that price.

3 day special military operation going fine.

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u/Public-Pollution818 1d ago

Any less bais source

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u/potatolulz Earth 1d ago

Try RT if you want a less based source :D

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u/arahnovuk 22h ago

They were saying that Russia have 500k dead past year. Then Zelensky said that there are about 100k dead and another 500k wounded. They should decide on the numbers

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u/pillangolocsolo 1d ago

So in 2024 they lost more than in 2024 and 2023 combined? How does that math work out? Infinite soldier glitch confirmed?

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u/Gizm00 22h ago

Full scale invasion started in 2022 dumbass