I had a conversation with Colonel Douglas Macgregor about the extremely dangerous stage of the current conflict. NATO is losing the war in Ukraine, and must either start negotiations or escalate. However, it appears that we have reached the end of the escalation ladder as we are at the verge of triggering a direct NATO-Russia War.
There are political crises across the West and the Ukrainian frontline collapses, yet the US/NATO continues to escalate rather than starting negotiations.
Glenn Diesen, why you never talk about the horrendous numbers of killed Russian soldiers in Ukraine?
120,000 dead and counting A new estimate from Meduza and Mediazona shows the rate of Russian military deaths in Ukraine is only growing
6:34 pm, July 5, 2024
Source: Meduza
In the latest update to their list of confirmed Russian military deaths, Mediazona and BBC News Russian reported that at least 56,585 Russian soldiers have died fighting in Ukraine as of June 21.
However, this list only includes soldiers whose deaths could be individually corroborated through open sources such as obituaries. In a previous investigation, Meduza and Mediazona used inheritance case data to estimate Russia’s losses and determined that 75,000 Russian soldiers had died in Ukraine as of the end of 2023. But collecting and analyzing data from the National Probate Registry takes significant time and resources, and this means that our true mortality estimates come much less frequently than our colleagues’ updates to the list of confirmed deaths.
To address this problem, we’ve devised a new method for estimating Russia’s true military death toll at any given time with a reasonably high level of accuracy. These “flash estimates” will now accompany updates to Mediazona and BBC Russian’s confirmed deaths list as well as Meduza’s own reports on casualties.
According to our latest calculations, as of the end of June, approximately 120,000 Russian servicemen have died in the war since 2022, but the real number could be as high as 140,000.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/07/05/a-new-estimate-from-meduza-and-mediazona-shows-the-rate-of-russian-military-deaths-in-ukraine-is-only-growing?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1ZyxZBu8cS0piqdJdZJmD-gzqZBKDrMsd0or0C5KsH_q4cJ6yesLcxEvQ_aem_GxjJ8ZV6sqnaUIcGtOWP3w
Internet is full of videos showing Russian tanks, BMP and other equipment destroyed on the battlefield. Another Russian attack thwarted in Kharkiv region. AFU reports the losses inflicted as 1 tank, 2 BMPs and 2 MT-LBs. It's interesting that Russian forces are still pushing in that area after their Kharkiv offensive blatantly failed recently.
https://youtu.be/B62LJUPOaTo
(also including some AFU-FPV vs. cope-cage videos from the Belgorod region)