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Russia has lost over 400,000 soldiers in Ukraine
(news.yahoo.com)
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Ukraine has lost similar numbers. War is miserable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
This is somewhat misleading. According to that Wikipedia page, just using the US estimates, Ukraine has had 70k deaths and Russia has had 120k+. While these are similar in that they both round to 100k perhaps, Russia has almost double the Ukrainian military personnel losses.
War is miserable, but I don’t think Ukraine is losing military personnel by nearly the same clip that Russia is.
While that's true, I would argue the total human cost is similar. Your estimates do not count stolen and killed Ukrainian civilians. Adding those would make the numbers far closer, especially since no Russian civilians are caught in this conflict so far.
Not saying any of this is OK. Just unfortunately the numbers are very similar. War is miserable.
*And yes, the fact that Ukraine is suffering more losses due to the fact that it's Russia invading absolutely makes Russia the bad guy here. I'm just pointing out that the losses are unfortunately very close.
The population ratio ia roughly 3:1 though, so even 120:70 is far from sustainable or winnable sadly. I'd imagine those numbers would be way better if the military aid was not drip fed...
Hollywood presents fighting war in this heroic way. After seeing enough videos of soldiers getting blown to bits by randomly passing drones, I think it’s more bleak than that. You likely are going to get killed in the least heroic way… lying in the dirt.
Based on these casualty numbers there is just about a 99% chance you will be killed or severely maimed. Unless you have a legitimate higher purpose for fighting, which I believe the Ukrainians do, it would be best to avoid it all together.