I'd like to correct that it's one million of their soldiers lost in a pointless war, not died. About 2/3 of those losses are severe permanent injuries that render the soldier useless for military use.

The goal of Ukraine is not to kill the maximum amount of orcs, but to neutralize the maximum amount of orcs.

You can see it this way: There are, in any case, about two serious injuries per one death. In human armies it tends to be about five injuries per one death, but in the Russian army a lot of people who would end up counting as "injured" end up counting as "dead", as there is no healthcare available for them. If there really were 1,1 million dead, the total losses would be in the ballpark of 3½ million soldiers. And the Russian military has not lost 3½ million soldiers yet. Therefore, it must be that the number includes also the seriously permanently wounded.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Very very true and my mistake. At the same time, the severely wounded come back with horror stories and are likely to need help, straining resources ever further.