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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

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Belgorod, a small shithole in Ruzzia, full of killed RuZZian nazi soldiers https://youtu.be/9eLNmo4W2cY?si=2kTG8bNxHs3a-emk

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In Russia you will not find the big graveyards in the biggest cities as Adolf Putin has avoided to mobilize men from the bigger cities

https://youtu.be/SL6eTOZlI4U?si=mtAxTsP_3ZHZldui

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Even Prigozhin said Ruzzia losing over 1000 men per day a year ago.

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Russia have a history of underreporting their losses. They did so in Afghanistan and in Chechnya. Russian graveyards are full of killed Russian soldiers. Why do they have to return injured soldiers to the frontline if their losses are small?

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/nyQ9j5/de-russiske-soldatene-staar-med-krykker-paa-slagmarken-og-ber-putin-om-hjelp?utm_source=iosapp&utm_medium=share

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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)

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Quite far right extremist views from MacGregor calling Le Pen a moderate politician. MacGregor seem to have very little knowledge on Europe and Ukraine. Russia will never be able to win a war against NATO. Russia dont have enough manpower and economy to defeat NATO.

Even you realize if the west turn its economy into a war economy they will destroy Russia in every aspect.

The Russian economy is overheated. State activity must be reduced. That's what Herman Gref, head of the country's largest bank, Sberbank, says. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6746099?query=%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%20%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%84

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My first thought was who can Russia negotiate with? Zelensky lacks legitimate authority and Biden is MIA.

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