Russia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022
Russia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022
Russia has lost 1,330 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 900,800.
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I find this difficult to believe. Edit: Wikipedia has a total (both sides) death toll of 160k-290k.
Casualties != Death
As always that this topic gets discussed: dead and wounded
Title says "lost". I took that to mean killed.
Many do. But, in military purposes, it is not really relevant whether your army loses a soldier through death or through a severe permanent wound. He is still a soldier that you cannot use at the front.
It's a standard practice to count the dead and permanently wounded in the same number, because that's what is militarily relevant.
See first comment, 900K include wounded too.
Seriously wounded.
There are also slight wounds, which number at around 10 000 per day on average (according to a Russian source that I read two-three days ago). Remember that this number includes everything, including getting a paper cut in your finger, so the same person can end up in that number several times per month.
The number of Russian military losses consists of wounded by a bit under ⅔ of the number. The wound gets included in the number only if its severe enough to permanently remove you from the front.
This difficulty to believe it's actually quite fundamental to what's happening.
If you like, I invite you to imagine what would be the explanation if these numbers were true. (Even adjusted for being dead and wounded)
IDK but seems probable if anybody on earth can take large amount of casualties, might be the Russians
Yup. They do have that feature.
As do Ukrainians. Which causes it to be a detrimental feature for both sides. If only one side had that, then it would be of advantage.
regardless of the total number there are combat footage videos of entire platoons getting obliterated