"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

“A U.S. intelligence report declassified in mid-December 2023 estimated that 315,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. If accurate, the figure would represent 87% of the roughly 360,000 troops Russia had before the war, according to the report.”

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I will never feel as though I fit in this world, a place where the so-called leaders of humanity callously throw away the lives of their own people–slaughtering the innocent along the way–in their own broken, vileness.

There is no goodness from such death.

We have the ability, today, to be so much more than we have ever been. We can realize the greatest of human potential. Yet we continue to choose death.

Had I only been born in a later age where I could spend my one life in an era that is extraordinarily glorious. Presuming of course that our species would survive itself to such a time.

  • @Squizzy
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    24 months ago

    Estimates on Russian troops lie between the US with 315,000 and Ukraine with 410,000+ with the UK verifying Ukraine’s as very close to their numbers.

    Russia said they’ve lost 6,000 while one of their news outlets said 75,000.

    No matter the case, Russia is likely losing troops at a ratio of 8:1 or more with an estimated 120 a day currently.