Putin Can’t Hide This: Ukraine War Costs Russia 1.1 Million Casualties
nationalsecurityjournal.org
Key Points and Summary – UK defense intelligence now estimates Russia has suffered roughly 1.14 million casualties since 2022, with about 353,000 killed and wounded in 2025 alone. -Recent daily losses hover around 1,000 as Moscow pushes to encircle Pokrovsk, a shattered but vital rail and road hub in Donetsk. -Kyiv denies encirclement, citing counterattacks […]

There’s no evidence at all that the Putin regmine is even slightly moved by casualty numbers. Indeed - their losses may well be part of the plan - an expected and accepted trade-off. It’s not stated enough how internal ethnic cleansing of trading useless mouths for prime ukrainain lands and population is a perfectly logical conclusion. If you’re a completely depraved petromafia gangster ghoul…numbers mean nothing unless you’re talking about money and sq. km of stolen land. The numbers shock some people, but pretending the Kremlin cares is like throwing ice cubes at the sun.

  • TwinkleToes@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Understood, thanks. And hopefully there is someone internal who wants to succeed him while there’s still a functional nation state to rule over.

    I don’t really buy the “but - but - then someone WORSE will come along!”.

    Worse than the genocide, corrosive fuckery and populist poison that’s going on now? A shrill, thrashing mafia butcher who enables death and mayhem across the world, poisons the planet in every way possible and threatens nuclear armageddon like it’s a bodily function, and you’re not willing to see what ‘new leadership’ might look like?

    These people, from The Great Goblin himself on down, are pure evil. Best case - he dies, unnaturally and soon - and Russia collapses into fueding ethno corporate fiefdoms too individually weak to maintain a nuclear arsenal, who spend their time fighting each other instead of shitting hot cancerous diarrhea in every direction.

    • doo@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Guys, I really enjoyed your conversation. Deep, insightful and respectful. Given a chance, I’ll buy you a beer.

        • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          For your information:

          This community is operated on a server operated by a Finn and physically located in Germany. You are using lemmy.ca, but this community, ukraine@sopuli.xyz is not on lemmy.ca, but on sopuli.xyz, a whole different site on a different server in a different country :) Sopuli is a server operated by a Finnish person, and physically located in a country known as Germany.

          Also, you were talking with supersquirrel, who is using this network through sopuli.xyz (which coincidentally happens to be the same instance this community is running on). Supersquirrel is not touching lemmy.ca in any way. The two server computers, those of Lemmy.ca and sopuli.xyz, tell each other what new comments have appeared, and then show each other’s comments.

          I am very happy that your canadianness happens to be partaking in this conversation, because you’ve good plenty of knowledge and very good argumentational skills.