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https://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2023/12/17/the-total-combat-losses-of-the-enemy-from-24-02-2022-to-17-12-2023/
According to the Estonian intelligence service Russia can train 50k soldiers every 6months. That is something less then 300soldiers per day. In other words Russia can not replace these sorts of losses with properly trained soldiers.
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A shame that so many of you will die for nothing, all because of one madman. Your country will never fully recover from this demographic damage.
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They can do that, but without proper training losses will go up. Even this is mental. Right now Russia is at something like 700k boys being born in a year. This is completely unsustainable over years. Especially with a lot of young people having fled conscription.
It was unsustinable even before war with rising death, emmigration. All eastern Europe suffers from that, and what Cosovo conflict caused to ex-Chechoslovakia (did you ever wonder why so many pornstars came from here?), would happen to Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. And it would be particularly damaging to Russia, a country that spans across 8 timezones yet having half the people US have. There’s many ghost cities already, and I can imagine a lot more would die off, and with them the last industry this country inherited from USSR would die too. It’s a national sepuku. In ten years this place would resemble New Vegas, with everything concentrated in the capital and nothing everywhere else.