From Yahoo:
“The Russian military's heavy
losses from Ukraine in charts”
There are more than 150,000
Russian troops involved in the war with Ukraine, and an estimated 7,000 are
have died within three weeks of fighting. Experts contribute the high casualty
rate to a poorly trained Russian army. The immense casualties are unsustainable
for the Russian army. In three weeks of fighting in Ukraine, Russia has lost an
estimated 7,000 troops, according to U.S. intelligence. That's more than the
number of American troops lost in either the Afghanistan or Iraq war. Experts
say this rate of casualties is unsustainable for the Russian army and is
terrible for morale on the battlefield and at home. There are more than 150,000
total Russian troops involved in the war with Ukraine, and an estimated 14,000
to 21,000 are injured, a huge toll that is contributing to the stalemate
developing as Ukrainian fighters halt the Russian advance. "You have to
keep in mind this is not the Soviet Army of World War II that marched to
victory over the bodies of its dead," said Mark Cancian, a retired Marine
colonel and senior advisor with the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. "This is a much smaller army, mostly volunteers. It's much more
sensitive to casualties." "Now they're bringing in new units and
they'll bring in reinforcements, so that will mitigate some of the
impact," Cancian said. "But if they keep having casualties at this
rate, I don't think they can go much beyond another, I'm going to say, three
weeks."
For Jeffrey Edmonds, a former US
Army tanker and CIA military analyst, the US intelligence estimate of 7,000
losses seems too high. But he said even more conservative guesses – like 4,000
or 5,000 – remain staggering. Edmonds contributes the high casualty rate to a
poorly trained Russian army, many of whom were not aware they would be in
active combat. He said the army has carried out poor operational and tactical
maneuvers, for example, believing that they could easily drive into Kyiv and
take the city. Another reason for these extreme casualties, Edmonds said, is
that the Ukrainian army has put up a stronger resistance than anyone
anticipated. CIA Director Bill Burns has said that Putin believed he would be
able to take Kyiv in two days, while US intelligence also estimated the capitol
would fall shortly after the invasion — Ukraine still holds it thanks to heavy
fighting on the approaches into the city. Edmonds emphasized the way morale is
brought down significantly by these overwhelming losses, affecting the
performance of other troops. "I've seen reports about units being
destroyed and things of that nature," Edmonds said of the Russian army.
"Typically, we think in the military that if you lose a third of your
unit, then you're combat ineffective, because usually, psychologically, one in three
dying or being taken out of the fight, your unit typically can't function well
after that." The U.S. could technically sustain Russia's current casualty
rate, according to Cancian, because of the sheer size of its military, but
losses of this scale so quickly would likely trigger a big opposition back
home. "The question for the United States would be the political
viability," Cancian said. "What's the politics of these casualties?
What's the willingness of the population to accept them?" Despite media
censorship in Russia and Putin's false narrative that the war in Ukraine is not
a war but a "special operation," these casualties will make the
reality hard to hide. "Over time, I think the population is going to
understand the magnitude of this special operation," Edmonds said.
"Special operations don't swallow thousands of soldiers."
^ Out of the 150,000 Russian
Invaders that went into Ukraine over 3 weeks ago a Conservative 4,000 are now
dead and 14,000 wounded (although the actual numbers are probably much higher.)
To give you a comparison:
Afghanistan and Ukraine have the same basic total population. Afghanistan has
40 Million People and Ukraine has 41 Million People. 2,420 American Soldiers
died and 19,950 were wounded in Afghanistan between 2001-2021.
At least 4,000 Russians have died
in just 3 weeks of fighting (more than double the amount of Americans in
Afghanistan in 20 years.) The main difference between the American deaths in
Afghanistan and the Russian deaths in Ukraine is that Ukraine never did
anything to anyone before they were illegally and brutally invaded and
attacked. Afghanistan did with Bin Laden. So any Russians who die will be
looking up at the rest us while the Americans who died will be looking down at
the rest of us.
The “Modern” Russian Military is
as backwards and disorganized as the Russian Government and because of that Conscripts
that are 18-25 years old are being sent to Ukraine as cannon-fodder for a War
Putin won’t win.
That is great news for Ukraine
and its continued resistance against the Russian Butchers and War Criminals.
Hopefully the Russian People
wake-up soon otherwise they will have lost a whole Generation of Young Men to a
Barbaric Genocidal War their Country started and which the whole World will
rightfully blame them for for years to come. ^
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