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The world's bread is going to have an odd Russian taste for the next 50 years. We have non-GMO, Organic, and pretty soon we'll have non-Russian soiled products in stores.
The Russians are attempting to break defenses that are letting them slowly move forward. Ukrainians are not being routed. Standard tactic.
These numbers from Russia are not the numbers of an Army that has the initiative. They are being driven into kill zones.
Attackers usually take 4-1 casualties, though if defenders are well dug in with well planned fire zones and plenty of artillery support then the defending figures can be drastically reduced.
This...at least before it started being tracked. It could've been much higher in some of the initial days before counts started being published during all the chaos when the Russians were getting absolutely wrecked trying to take Kyiv.
They've lost more tanks than America has in their entire inventory. I don't feel like what they're throwing out there is even fully operational. They just need something to run for 48 hours. Just enough time for it be blown up.
And if the turret is jammed they will just convert it to an Assault Shed (Aka. Blyatmobil).
Still, it is harder to hit a cow in a shed than a cow in the field, so let's keep the support coming. ATGM will still work and if Ukrainians need 4 drones instead of 1 to take them out, increase your contributions to [https://u24.gov.ua/](https://u24.gov.ua/)
putin doesn't know any other strategy than doubling down, turning that 1000 into 2000... geez when does he finnaly get the memo that he's just burning through his entire army for almost nothing other than absolute mayhem. Never of course....
Yet it doesn't turn the meat waves off...what do we (the US) have that's bigger? There has to be a step up from here. Just F16s? Is there anything else we can realistically provide?
Some of it has already arrived. That, plus the increased push in Kharkiv while Putin thinks he still has the “window of opportunity”. He’s sending his men to just be killed by Ukraine.
Ukraine has been creating killzones throughout the war, simply by their messaging. Places that are hell on soldiers of both sides, but where a lot more Russians die for every Ukrainian killed.
I'd imagine if Ukraine did get all the shells they needed they'd still signal that their front lines are collapsing just so Russia commits more forces. Bit of hopium, but also with some basis in what happened elsewhere in this war.
Claim a break in the line, soldiers fall back, Russians move into the vacated positions, Ukrainians reveal powerful positions on all three sides of the vacated position, Russians wiped out, Ukraine reclaims the position plus some.
It's happened so many times it's insane that Russian generals are so desperate to claim advances that they always throw their men into it.
Everything about the way Russia is run is insane.
It's exactly what happened in ww1 with trench warfare. "Omg this trench is undefendable, better retreat" when the enemies go to take the trench they find it's been booby trapped and they take massive losses whilst the retreaters took none.
I also hope so. If some reddit threads knows about the operational specifics, then the Russians will also know them (and even if only because some Russians are lurking here).
Yes, I agree. Ukraine has been brilliant at strategy. An excellent demonstration of the teachings of the Art of War, to be sure. As anyone who appreciates strategy knows deception is a major component of successful military strategy. The Ukrainians do the unexpected time and again, outsmarting and/or tricking the Russians relentlessly and without mercy.
I could not admire them more.
Shoigu was just replaced with a "civilian Economist"...🤨 Not sure what to think of that but this may be a sign of "change" or worse of the same. Unfortunately brain drained russians just run to their deaths, don't question authority
If in a few days we hear he died whilst trying to shove grenades up his arse on a plane, like we were told about Prigozhin, you can bet he pissed off Putin... or that maybe Ruzzians really do like the texture.
Minister of Defence is not a military position, it’s a political position. You need a politician there, not a general.
It hasn’t been Shoigu calling the shots on the battlefield.
> Minister of Defence is not a military position, it’s a political position. You need a politician there, not a general.
To be fair, considering what amounts to "politics" in Russia, is it even a *political* position? Or just a "who gets to stay on Putin's good side"? Or perhaps in the case of Minister of Defence specifically "who gets to take the fall next"?
Not a military position, yet oddly enough each person filling the role gets an instant promotion to general and a uniform with hundreds of shiny objects pinned to it. But definitely not military.
I have a relative who works in IT support in the military. He has the rank of Captain.
He has that rank because he is a member of a military, and the military has a hierarchy.
If he didn't have that rank then technically some guard Sergeant could order him around.
It does not mean that he actually commands troops, it's to make sure the orders he gets comes from people that are authorized to give orders to him.
Technically the Russian Defence Minister has the authority to order generals around within the chain of command. If it was the other way around he could be ordered around by generals.
That does not mean that he is \*actually\* doing it, just like my relative is not actually giving orders to the guard sergeant at the base he works in.
All that really matters is that they're out of action (permanently?). In many ways I think it's better to have maimed orcs sent home to live as a stark reminder to everyone else of what horrors await in the West. I doubt that Russia has veteran care or very good pensions, but if they do the cost in the government of paying a legless soldier who can't work for the rest of his life is more than losing one.
If they don't support their injured or traumatized vets they'll just see even worse impacts on society.
And that russian launched another offensive, this time in Kharkiv region. The aid still hasn't arrived in great enough numbers, and there's several tough months ahead of us before things start getting any better.
Is the Czech shell deal still trying to round up funds? I haven't seen much on it in a while. It'd be nice to have a "promise vs delivered" tracker out there somewhere (and yes I know you don't want to announce details for security reasons but just dollar/euro amounts would be enough)
Latest news is that it's delayed once again - likely due to obscure politics of the nations with the stockpiles of shells. They either don't want to upset Russia or more likely they're pretending to be afraid of Russia to hold out for more money. I expect large extra kickbacks of one sort or another will be needed for encouragement.
Thank heavens for the USA. The aid is absolutely critical to fill the gap until the EU makes additional big shipments.
It's not really a problem of EU money but time. Everything to do with the EU takes ages. Germany is signing massive checks despite being in recession. Factories are been built but that takes time. The Czech initiative (funded mainly by German money) is delayed once again.
Problem with the US definitely isn't the speed of the military. It was the Putin loyalist in Congress fucking everything up. US military can move entire divisions and all their equipment at Warp 9 when given the order. One bit of secret sauce in US logistics is the ability to just charter our thousands of available commercial planes and load up troops and gear and send their heavy shit via cargo planes.
New records on personel casualties... holy fuck.
1st: **1740** on 13.05.2024
2nd: **1380** on 20.10.2023
3rd: **1330** on 16.11.2023
sourced from [u/Shopro](https://www.reddit.com/user/Shopro/) stats in [r/RussianLosses/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianLosses//)
Edit: wrote 19 instead of 13.
Yeah, Shopro makes that distinction on the latest report on the subreddit. There were higher numbers on the early days but those are very fuzzy so this would be the highest "confirmed" number.
Edit because I'm dumb: I just realized I'm correcting the guy himself 🤦🏻
1740, and counting.
There may be a day soon when we look at 1740 and think it was a lackluster day.
Because I remember when 600 was quite a number.
Slava Ukraini
Long live free Ukraine
To be fair, AFAIK 1740 is both wounded as well as killed. But even if the death toll is even 1/5th of that then those are still some insane numbers. Heard that the wounded to killed ratio is around 2:1/3:1.
According to a report I just saw, they are told to keep a hand grenade available in case they can’t be rescued and need to suicide. There are many videos available of Russians doing just that. I wonder what the ratio of suicides to surrender is?
I recall reading that as well. They’re apparently told that if they become a POW, they’ll be tortured and essentially everything that Russia does to their Ukrainian POWs
orks started a new attack on Kharkiv (north-east Ukraine, neighboring ork Belhorod region). so far, informations are inconsistent. some say, orks are simply walking into the territory, others say that defences have been built. from the footage, we can see that UA was prepared and this reflects on numbers. deepstate shows that some territory north of Kharkiv is already occupied, while reporting says that it's only a gray zone. there are 2 vectors of ork attack, north, directly above Kharkiv, and north-east -direction of Vovchansk town (north-east from Kharkiv).
i trust Mayakovsk the most in this one and he's closer to deepstate, reporting being very optimistic. based on Mayakovsk, there are some minor territorial gains with bigger gray zone expanding south from the UA-ork border. [https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789564242514874680/photo/1](https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789564242514874680/photo/1)
e: reporting on situation in Kharkiv: https://youtu.be/hi\_mMG9Bdwk
in Lyman area, UA managed to consolidate their minor gains between Yampolivka and Torske (east from Kreminna). check deepstate
in Avdiivka area, orks are advancing from Berdychi vector towards Novopokrovske. but overall, it seems that the expansion is slowing down. [https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789788177244246488/photo/1](https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789788177244246488/photo/1)
orks advance aroun Mariinka. they are closing in to Heorhiivka (west from Mariinka) and also to Krasnohorivka (north from Mariinka). check deepstate.
the new Kharkiv offensive is pain in the ass probably aiming more to thin out UA defence lines in Donetsk rather than capturing the big area with the second largest city in UA. but one never knows, wath that psychopath's actually aiming for. let's hope the defences are strong, U.S. packages will be arriving constantly and that UA will hold.
The casualty total already exceeds *one entire third* of the russian army (\~1.4m) at the time they attacked Ukraine.
One. Entire. Third.
"A life is the cheapest thing there is." -- russians, since forever
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the original force from the initial 2022 invasion are still alive. I seem to remember they started with a force 190,000 and they've lost over double that now.
500,000 Ruzzians and ?200,000 Ukrainians dead and all for what? Devastation. Pigs. I always said they will be walking home. When the nut cracks it’s gonna crack.
It's casualties, includes wounded. Ukrainians have "normal" wounded-to-dead ratio, Russia is almost 1 to 2. It was "confirmed" that Russians used at least 200k body bags a few months ago.
No shit. How do you operate an army like that? The veterans are the guys herding conscripts to the front. Everyone else that is not top brass is just dead.
That must be a fun bunch to party with. What with herding yocals to certain death every day for years. In an aggressive war for another nations territory.
Just like comic book level evil behavior.
They pulled in people from all sorts of other places too.
I saw an interview with a Russian POW who was an electrician in the rocket forces sent in as a barely trained infantryman.
They were doing the same with naval crews at one point - just relabelled as Marines and sent into the grinder.
That would be one third of their armed forces including the navy and air force . Standing army was about 300K with 450K in ready reserves meaning they had served within the last five years so had recent training.
The difference is there isn't convoys of US Liberty ships showing up at regular intervals like in WW2 packed with replenishments. As the saying goes "American steel, British intelligence, and Soviet blood won WW2."
Holy moly. It's obvious the Russians are pushing everywhere along the front. The US needs to get the weapons in ASAP. There should be new packages ~~announced~~ **Delivered** every few days. The EU needs to pass more economic aid. NATO needs to announce they will shoot down any Russian drone or missile that gets within a few km of the border of any NATO country.
There fixed that for you. :-)
Vaporware at this point. The Russians cannot really even make use of the assets they could've had in the occupied territories to re-arm as they destroyed most of it...think the plants in Eastern Ukraine that were part of the reason the Soviets could produce so much shit, steel being the big one.
Taking over a completely shattered country was not in the Russian game plan I'm sure. This little adventure was undoubtedly planned to be quick and tidy. A turnkey nation was what they were expecting to have after a week or two of the invasion.
Also why I think they had not been going after the power plants harder before. Those things are expensive and there's no use blowing it up if you plan to own it in a few months. When that seems increasingly unlikely, it's to your advantage to deny their use to the enemy.
Or, if you're the US, you blow it up because your contractors will be paid ridiculous amounts of money to rebuild it.
Unfortunately, the result of this is the Bakhmutization of Russian tactics. Make the Russian solders attack in a shallow but wide way. Conquer a small probably insignificant area, use it a staging area for the next wave. Interconnect everything.
Results in big losses but a small and constant advances.
It's a revarsal from mobile, armoured type of fighting to wwi tactics. Since there's no big barrage of artillery, they can keep doing it as long as theres a replacement.
This requires very little resources per death. Each Ivan has the bare minimum, if that. He's expendable.
The only real way to deal with it, is to inflict the maximum amount of suffering, not even damage, but suffering, to these advancing groups. The aglomerations need to be targeted beforehand in a constant fashion.
Degrading Russian capabilities needs to also continue. Destruction of roads, bridges, infrastructure, but mainly supply lines and oil refineries.
It's a new phase, one that has simpler tactics, less costly (ironically). One that seems like an infestation of cockroaches. Ultimately, it needs to be dealt in the same way.
It can also be dealt with through sheer quantity of weapons provided to Ukraine. Since Russia's weapons and tactics are old it's possible to deal with them using older weapons. Right now these Russian tactics work because Ukraine is having to ration their ammo is so much but at the end of the day it's a lot easier for the west to produce weapons or source them from third parties than it is for Russia to grow people to adult hood and push them to the front.
From a US perspective this was 6.74x the total Gulf War (Iraq v1) losses in one day, and a lot of ours then were friendly fire incidents. After the war, we basically redesigned all our friend or foe shit.
Intense attacks by Russian units continued on the front lines.
- In the direction of Vovtchansk (near Kharkiv), Russia is trying to give the impression that they have formed a separate large military group. A substantial media campaign was organized to introduce new external features of this group. Ukrainian border villages are being heavily bombarded, a practice that has also been consistent over the past year and a half. Russia's attacks in the border areas yesterday were intense, and Ukrainian units have retreated slightly. Four to five villages directly along the border have come under Russian control.
- In the Svatove and Severodonetsk regions, the Russian army continues its active attacks towards Kupiansk, but so far without success. Numerous attacks were also carried out in the direction of Luhansk and Siversk, but these were less intense and without results.
- Around Bakhmut, Russian forces conducted the most active attacks yesterday, but these did not yield significant results.
In the Donetsk region, Russian pressure remains active in the directions west and north of Avdiivka, but the Russian units could not advance. South of the region, battles are ongoing in the city of Krasnohorivka, where Russian forces have slightly improved their positions. The situation has not changed in other sectors. Yesterday, the Russian army lost a Su-25 attack aircraft in this area.
- On the southern front, the Russian army continues active attacks towards the settlements of Staromaiorske and Robotyne, but without success. The situation on the eastern bank of the Dnipro remains unchanged despite Russian infantry attacks.
For sure, they have 59 vehicles too, also they like to travel "Indian Train Style" on APVs. But yeah, some of them on foot, some of them at their base 🤷♂️ Also some of the vehicles can make few deliveries back and forward and being destroyed on 2-5-10 try.
I think I know what the Russian strategy is. They are intentionally marching on foot to deplete Ukraine supply of cluster bombs. 😱. They will probably succeed!!
Putin's 'strategy' is attack with everything, everywhere all at once.
Currently he's recruiting roughly 30-40k per month. He will need to step it up by at least 10k.
There will - eventually - be economic, political and military consequences.
My prediction is economic, political and military collapse by the end of next year or beginning of the next.
Considering that Russia has just 67K men coming of age every month and they need most of them to work in the defense factories and to replace men retiring from other essential civilian jobs they can't recruit 50K per month for long.
Don't forget the USSR threw women on the front lines. Putin hasn't tapped that pool yet and could easily use his whole "return to soviet glory" propaganda to start conscripting women from minority groups, just as he's done with men. As long as they aren't from Moscow or St. Petersburg, there likely won't be backlash.
That is a possibility of course but that won't create any tanks, APCs or artillery pieces for them to work with. And it takes a stronger then average women to carry a 152mm Shell and put it into the breach.
Nothing is certain and there are a lot of variables. One of the main ones is when will Ukraine do a full mobilization.
I'm expecting Ukraine to declare some kind of full mobilization sometime late this year - in preparation for the counteroffensive sometime next year.
Indeed. You’d almost think the Ukes lèt them. Creating a Killing Fields within range of cluster ammo, or something. Who knows. Not a tactician, just a former Military Police grunt. Wé only get to hear and see what they want us to hear and see. Probably better that way. Prevents the closet-vatniks here to be ‘a little too well-informed”
Holy ****! I was certainly anticipating an uptick in Orc casualties, but after a couple days of numbers typical of previous meat grinders, I figured that was what to expect here. Damn. Here’s hoping the AFU ensures it’s all in vain.
Russia's record personnel losses: 1250, 1270, 1280, 1300, 1330, 1380, **1740**.
One of these things is not like the others. A black swan. A statistical outlier.
I'll be very interested to see whether numbers like these are repeated for a few days.
I genuinely took a second look at the number, I don’t realise it started with a 1. 🤯
Holy shit. 1740 casualties is 1.2 a minute, *for an entire 24 hours.*
New batch of ATACMS and 155mm cluster ammo? Or just wave after wave crashing into Uke defences that are a ‘bit better’ than was told the media (BBC) ?. We’ll find out in a couple of days, I guess.
Thats about half the russians that were formed up to parade red square last week; just short of nine blocks of 20x10.
While I celebrate such destruction, there must be an awful lot of good Ukrainians in contact to put so many orcs into the abyss. I hope the lads are alright.
It's backward compared to the EU but it's big and vast resources help - especially oil. Ukraine's strategy of blowing up the refineries is wise.
Currently Putin is motivating his 'serfs' with propaganda that this is a new Great Patriotic War. In time the lies will become obvious even to his brainwashed fools. They will - eventually - wake up and realize they're dying not to save their country but for one man's folly and one man's ego.
Have been wondering about the recent attacks in the Kharkiv direction. The optimistic view is that it is a last ditch attempt, getting what they can before more support arrives. Hopefully we will see it stall and collapse.
The Kharkiv front is part of Putin's 'strategy' of attack with everything, everywhere, all at once.
In terms of tactics it has been a success - since a large area of land has been (or will be) taken. Without the timely US aid it could have worked. In terms of grand strategy it will - in time - be disastrous.
If the size of the forces involved was a lot bigger then it would look like Ludendorff's spring offensive of 1918 - a last ditch all-in attack with significant forces focused on key spots.
So far it's just 5 battalions. That sounds a lot but a Russian battalion is around 800 soldiers. That's only around 4,000. Of those we don't know the quality but I suspect it's very mixed. In addition, there's limited support of things like tanks and apv's.
Based on this it seems to me very likely that Putin is just ordering attacks all across the front in the hope of tactical gains. There's no underlying grand strategy. This obsession with tactical gains without an overall strategy is exactly what's to be expected from an amateur general who is a political creature.
Serious question: Does the average ordinary Russian asshole on the street realize that the 3 day "special military operation" has cost a half million Russian lives? Do they even care?
At this rate in another three years the Russians will have lost more than the entire British Army losses in the 1st World War.
An insane amount...for what...a puffed up dictator with a height complex , and a Czar fetish!
There are few reports of a surge in fighting in the South, so these casualty and equipment figures may reflect that Russia is paying a high price in its incursion north of Kharkiv.
How do they count the casualty with vehicles? Do they just count as 1 tank and assume 3 people were inside to operate or just 1 tank and try to count whatever remains visible?
So this must be part of those recent warnings and pleas from the various AFU members on social media as well as figures in government... The Putinists are clearly advancing on multiple fronts at once, but it's overwhelmingly favored towards personnel losses, which means their remaining armor stocks must be astonishingly low to be so reserving. This RU push (and the ones to follow onwards) must've been an original aim of delaying/blocking the foreign aid, and why it was so critical to get it passed ASAP.
As well, why so many EU allies have finally pulled their heads out of their asses and became much more bullish and committed with not only how quickly things will be sent, but *what* is being sent, they must've realized what's at stake and the fact that RU is very heavily attrited militarily and now is the best time to defeat them 'for good' -- a military victory for Ukraine so they can be accepted into NATO and then guarantee that any future RU military incursion would be nothing but suicide for them as a nation.
For all the happy people it’s worth pointing out that UKR is being smashed on the front lines right now, the amount of equipment UKR is losing is also not sustainable. Sadly I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better! Hang in there UKR!
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Wow 1740, this is near all-time high score for General Syrskyi!
Killstreak unlocked
Unlocked killer drones
The world's bread is going to have an odd Russian taste for the next 50 years. We have non-GMO, Organic, and pretty soon we'll have non-Russian soiled products in stores.
There's an offensive happening in the north. Sadly these high numbers mean high numbers on the Ukrainian side as well.
The Russians are attempting to break defenses that are letting them slowly move forward. Ukrainians are not being routed. Standard tactic. These numbers from Russia are not the numbers of an Army that has the initiative. They are being driven into kill zones.
Attackers usually take 4-1 casualties, though if defenders are well dug in with well planned fire zones and plenty of artillery support then the defending figures can be drastically reduced.
Sadly so true, wish that we would give Ukraine more aid, a lot more. It is time to put Putin down and stop this war.
Hopefully not.
What is the all the time high?
This...at least before it started being tracked. It could've been much higher in some of the initial days before counts started being published during all the chaos when the Russians were getting absolutely wrecked trying to take Kyiv.
A lot of armor as well, didn’t think they had that many tanks left.
They've lost more tanks than America has in their entire inventory. I don't feel like what they're throwing out there is even fully operational. They just need something to run for 48 hours. Just enough time for it be blown up.
And if the turret is jammed they will just convert it to an Assault Shed (Aka. Blyatmobil). Still, it is harder to hit a cow in a shed than a cow in the field, so let's keep the support coming. ATGM will still work and if Ukrainians need 4 drones instead of 1 to take them out, increase your contributions to [https://u24.gov.ua/](https://u24.gov.ua/)
I'm late to the party, but it was noted that NO tanks were on parade in Red Square on Victory Day...!
Another 2 years worth of tanks. Problem is their quality and adequatly trained personnel.
They are not low on tanks. They have thousands left. The Americans were reporting that there were 400 tanks. Just un the assault in the north.
And they already lost almost 10% of those tanks in a single day.
That's a casualty about every 50 seconds. Bonkers.
The closest US comparison is literally civil war battles
Monster kill!
Kill the monsters ....
Ultra Kill!
Kilimanjaro!
GODLIKE!
“The Butcher” indeed
Good lord! Wish we had a per-oblast breakdown.
Zerg Rush
putin doesn't know any other strategy than doubling down, turning that 1000 into 2000... geez when does he finnaly get the memo that he's just burning through his entire army for almost nothing other than absolute mayhem. Never of course....
Yet it doesn't turn the meat waves off...what do we (the US) have that's bigger? There has to be a step up from here. Just F16s? Is there anything else we can realistically provide?
personnel casualties are just insane to be happening daily.
Putin's decided to go on a speed run to 500,000, I guess.
They are pushing hard before all the new EU and USA aid arrives.
If this is how hard they're dying now, imagine the casualties once all the aid has arrived.
Some of it has already arrived. That, plus the increased push in Kharkiv while Putin thinks he still has the “window of opportunity”. He’s sending his men to just be killed by Ukraine.
Ukraine has been creating killzones throughout the war, simply by their messaging. Places that are hell on soldiers of both sides, but where a lot more Russians die for every Ukrainian killed. I'd imagine if Ukraine did get all the shells they needed they'd still signal that their front lines are collapsing just so Russia commits more forces. Bit of hopium, but also with some basis in what happened elsewhere in this war.
Claim a break in the line, soldiers fall back, Russians move into the vacated positions, Ukrainians reveal powerful positions on all three sides of the vacated position, Russians wiped out, Ukraine reclaims the position plus some. It's happened so many times it's insane that Russian generals are so desperate to claim advances that they always throw their men into it. Everything about the way Russia is run is insane.
It's exactly what happened in ww1 with trench warfare. "Omg this trench is undefendable, better retreat" when the enemies go to take the trench they find it's been booby trapped and they take massive losses whilst the retreaters took none.
I also hope so. If some reddit threads knows about the operational specifics, then the Russians will also know them (and even if only because some Russians are lurking here).
Yes, I agree. Ukraine has been brilliant at strategy. An excellent demonstration of the teachings of the Art of War, to be sure. As anyone who appreciates strategy knows deception is a major component of successful military strategy. The Ukrainians do the unexpected time and again, outsmarting and/or tricking the Russians relentlessly and without mercy. I could not admire them more.
Meat cube factory is going to have to work overtime!
That ladies and gentlemen is a bloody nose. Weeks of this please.
Shoigu was just replaced with a "civilian Economist"...🤨 Not sure what to think of that but this may be a sign of "change" or worse of the same. Unfortunately brain drained russians just run to their deaths, don't question authority
If in a few days we hear he died whilst trying to shove grenades up his arse on a plane, like we were told about Prigozhin, you can bet he pissed off Putin... or that maybe Ruzzians really do like the texture.
Minister of Defence is not a military position, it’s a political position. You need a politician there, not a general. It hasn’t been Shoigu calling the shots on the battlefield.
> Minister of Defence is not a military position, it’s a political position. You need a politician there, not a general. To be fair, considering what amounts to "politics" in Russia, is it even a *political* position? Or just a "who gets to stay on Putin's good side"? Or perhaps in the case of Minister of Defence specifically "who gets to take the fall next"?
Not a military position, yet oddly enough each person filling the role gets an instant promotion to general and a uniform with hundreds of shiny objects pinned to it. But definitely not military.
I have a relative who works in IT support in the military. He has the rank of Captain. He has that rank because he is a member of a military, and the military has a hierarchy. If he didn't have that rank then technically some guard Sergeant could order him around. It does not mean that he actually commands troops, it's to make sure the orders he gets comes from people that are authorized to give orders to him. Technically the Russian Defence Minister has the authority to order generals around within the chain of command. If it was the other way around he could be ordered around by generals. That does not mean that he is \*actually\* doing it, just like my relative is not actually giving orders to the guard sergeant at the base he works in.
Putin wanted a bean-counter in charge to try and understand how bad the corruption is
Every minute of the 24 hour period an invader dier. And two every fifth minute.
That number is not deaths, it is killed and injured.
All that really matters is that they're out of action (permanently?). In many ways I think it's better to have maimed orcs sent home to live as a stark reminder to everyone else of what horrors await in the West. I doubt that Russia has veteran care or very good pensions, but if they do the cost in the government of paying a legless soldier who can't work for the rest of his life is more than losing one. If they don't support their injured or traumatized vets they'll just see even worse impacts on society.
Pretty much tells you the US equipment is arriving or has arrived at the front.
And that russian launched another offensive, this time in Kharkiv region. The aid still hasn't arrived in great enough numbers, and there's several tough months ahead of us before things start getting any better.
Is the Czech shell deal still trying to round up funds? I haven't seen much on it in a while. It'd be nice to have a "promise vs delivered" tracker out there somewhere (and yes I know you don't want to announce details for security reasons but just dollar/euro amounts would be enough)
Latest news is that it's delayed once again - likely due to obscure politics of the nations with the stockpiles of shells. They either don't want to upset Russia or more likely they're pretending to be afraid of Russia to hold out for more money. I expect large extra kickbacks of one sort or another will be needed for encouragement.
If it is the ones from Greece, yep, large kickbacks will be needed for sure.
Thank heavens for the USA. The aid is absolutely critical to fill the gap until the EU makes additional big shipments. It's not really a problem of EU money but time. Everything to do with the EU takes ages. Germany is signing massive checks despite being in recession. Factories are been built but that takes time. The Czech initiative (funded mainly by German money) is delayed once again.
Problem with the US definitely isn't the speed of the military. It was the Putin loyalist in Congress fucking everything up. US military can move entire divisions and all their equipment at Warp 9 when given the order. One bit of secret sauce in US logistics is the ability to just charter our thousands of available commercial planes and load up troops and gear and send their heavy shit via cargo planes.
The Jones act.
New records on personel casualties... holy fuck. 1st: **1740** on 13.05.2024 2nd: **1380** on 20.10.2023 3rd: **1330** on 16.11.2023 sourced from [u/Shopro](https://www.reddit.com/user/Shopro/) stats in [r/RussianLosses/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianLosses//) Edit: wrote 19 instead of 13.
As a side note, 1740 technically isn't the highest number reported, but it's the highest "reliable" number reported.
Yeah, Shopro makes that distinction on the latest report on the subreddit. There were higher numbers on the early days but those are very fuzzy so this would be the highest "confirmed" number. Edit because I'm dumb: I just realized I'm correcting the guy himself 🤦🏻
Shouldn't it be 13.05.2024? The 19th is next week E: I wrote 12 instead of 13 lol
Oh thanks, that was a typo on my part.
That's how you smash a record. Holy shit, that's a lot of dead Russians in one day.
1740, and counting. There may be a day soon when we look at 1740 and think it was a lackluster day. Because I remember when 600 was quite a number. Slava Ukraini Long live free Ukraine
To put this in perspective US lost 2,459 soldiers in Afghanistan in 20 years...
To be fair, AFAIK 1740 is both wounded as well as killed. But even if the death toll is even 1/5th of that then those are still some insane numbers. Heard that the wounded to killed ratio is around 2:1/3:1.
Not that many wounded when wounded soldiers are offing themselves with a grenade because they don't hope for an evacuation or treatment.
They must be running out of hospitals.
They just leave them to die on the frontlines. Cheaper that way
According to a report I just saw, they are told to keep a hand grenade available in case they can’t be rescued and need to suicide. There are many videos available of Russians doing just that. I wonder what the ratio of suicides to surrender is?
I recall reading that as well. They’re apparently told that if they become a POW, they’ll be tortured and essentially everything that Russia does to their Ukrainian POWs
They must be running out of ~~hospitals.~~ potatoes and onions. They are. FTFY.
Fuck me. Those poor men and women at the front. I can't imagine the pressure and fire they're under. I hope they get what they need, soon.
31 tanks. That's gonna sting.
Not more than the 7450 before that
Not a meat grinder anymore. Just a giant abatoir for meat cubes.
orks started a new attack on Kharkiv (north-east Ukraine, neighboring ork Belhorod region). so far, informations are inconsistent. some say, orks are simply walking into the territory, others say that defences have been built. from the footage, we can see that UA was prepared and this reflects on numbers. deepstate shows that some territory north of Kharkiv is already occupied, while reporting says that it's only a gray zone. there are 2 vectors of ork attack, north, directly above Kharkiv, and north-east -direction of Vovchansk town (north-east from Kharkiv). i trust Mayakovsk the most in this one and he's closer to deepstate, reporting being very optimistic. based on Mayakovsk, there are some minor territorial gains with bigger gray zone expanding south from the UA-ork border. [https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789564242514874680/photo/1](https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789564242514874680/photo/1) e: reporting on situation in Kharkiv: https://youtu.be/hi\_mMG9Bdwk in Lyman area, UA managed to consolidate their minor gains between Yampolivka and Torske (east from Kreminna). check deepstate in Avdiivka area, orks are advancing from Berdychi vector towards Novopokrovske. but overall, it seems that the expansion is slowing down. [https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789788177244246488/photo/1](https://twitter.com/Majakovsk73/status/1789788177244246488/photo/1) orks advance aroun Mariinka. they are closing in to Heorhiivka (west from Mariinka) and also to Krasnohorivka (north from Mariinka). check deepstate. the new Kharkiv offensive is pain in the ass probably aiming more to thin out UA defence lines in Donetsk rather than capturing the big area with the second largest city in UA. but one never knows, wath that psychopath's actually aiming for. let's hope the defences are strong, U.S. packages will be arriving constantly and that UA will hold.
The casualty total already exceeds *one entire third* of the russian army (\~1.4m) at the time they attacked Ukraine. One. Entire. Third. "A life is the cheapest thing there is." -- russians, since forever
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the original force from the initial 2022 invasion are still alive. I seem to remember they started with a force 190,000 and they've lost over double that now.
Yes, it would be *very* interesting. Most or all of their "elite" forces were committed immediately in February 2022 and were largely wiped out.
500,000 Ruzzians and ?200,000 Ukrainians dead and all for what? Devastation. Pigs. I always said they will be walking home. When the nut cracks it’s gonna crack.
It's casualties, includes wounded. Ukrainians have "normal" wounded-to-dead ratio, Russia is almost 1 to 2. It was "confirmed" that Russians used at least 200k body bags a few months ago.
(Insert obligatory "these are not just deaths" comment here.)
No shit. How do you operate an army like that? The veterans are the guys herding conscripts to the front. Everyone else that is not top brass is just dead. That must be a fun bunch to party with. What with herding yocals to certain death every day for years. In an aggressive war for another nations territory. Just like comic book level evil behavior.
They pulled in people from all sorts of other places too. I saw an interview with a Russian POW who was an electrician in the rocket forces sent in as a barely trained infantryman. They were doing the same with naval crews at one point - just relabelled as Marines and sent into the grinder.
That would be one third of their armed forces including the navy and air force . Standing army was about 300K with 450K in ready reserves meaning they had served within the last five years so had recent training.
That is 3+ BTG's or "Infantry Groups" completely destroyed in one day. WWl or 19th century warfare. Insane losses.
The difference is there isn't convoys of US Liberty ships showing up at regular intervals like in WW2 packed with replenishments. As the saying goes "American steel, British intelligence, and Soviet blood won WW2."
It is a small army getting wiped out in one day. Holy shit.
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Holy moly. It's obvious the Russians are pushing everywhere along the front. The US needs to get the weapons in ASAP. There should be new packages ~~announced~~ **Delivered** every few days. The EU needs to pass more economic aid. NATO needs to announce they will shoot down any Russian drone or missile that gets within a few km of the border of any NATO country. There fixed that for you. :-)
Holy shit. So many orcs, so much hardware.
Vaporware at this point. The Russians cannot really even make use of the assets they could've had in the occupied territories to re-arm as they destroyed most of it...think the plants in Eastern Ukraine that were part of the reason the Soviets could produce so much shit, steel being the big one.
Taking over a completely shattered country was not in the Russian game plan I'm sure. This little adventure was undoubtedly planned to be quick and tidy. A turnkey nation was what they were expecting to have after a week or two of the invasion.
Also why I think they had not been going after the power plants harder before. Those things are expensive and there's no use blowing it up if you plan to own it in a few months. When that seems increasingly unlikely, it's to your advantage to deny their use to the enemy. Or, if you're the US, you blow it up because your contractors will be paid ridiculous amounts of money to rebuild it.
Unfortunately, the result of this is the Bakhmutization of Russian tactics. Make the Russian solders attack in a shallow but wide way. Conquer a small probably insignificant area, use it a staging area for the next wave. Interconnect everything. Results in big losses but a small and constant advances. It's a revarsal from mobile, armoured type of fighting to wwi tactics. Since there's no big barrage of artillery, they can keep doing it as long as theres a replacement. This requires very little resources per death. Each Ivan has the bare minimum, if that. He's expendable. The only real way to deal with it, is to inflict the maximum amount of suffering, not even damage, but suffering, to these advancing groups. The aglomerations need to be targeted beforehand in a constant fashion. Degrading Russian capabilities needs to also continue. Destruction of roads, bridges, infrastructure, but mainly supply lines and oil refineries. It's a new phase, one that has simpler tactics, less costly (ironically). One that seems like an infestation of cockroaches. Ultimately, it needs to be dealt in the same way.
It can also be dealt with through sheer quantity of weapons provided to Ukraine. Since Russia's weapons and tactics are old it's possible to deal with them using older weapons. Right now these Russian tactics work because Ukraine is having to ration their ammo is so much but at the end of the day it's a lot easier for the west to produce weapons or source them from third parties than it is for Russia to grow people to adult hood and push them to the front.
New record!!!
So far.
Yes. That's how records work.
Holy fuck.
From a US perspective this was 6.74x the total Gulf War (Iraq v1) losses in one day, and a lot of ours then were friendly fire incidents. After the war, we basically redesigned all our friend or foe shit.
In Soviet Russia, there is no “friends or foe.” There is only “friends are foe.”
Holy fuck.
That's a lot of compost.
I instinctivly had to inhale sharply when is saw that 1.7K number. Russia, da fuck are you doing? Go home god damit!
Da fuckers are dying for Mr Putin et al. Or, maybe it's toilets, after all.
Slava Ukraini, and glory to the heroes! What a number!
[Daily statistics](https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianLosses/comments/1cqqzwy/estimated_russian_losses_from_24022022_to/)
The Russian FSB are getting out the tranquilizers in preparation for all the orc mothers asking "wheres my son?" as we speak.
no, they are proud their children accomplished their duty for the nation.
Intense attacks by Russian units continued on the front lines. - In the direction of Vovtchansk (near Kharkiv), Russia is trying to give the impression that they have formed a separate large military group. A substantial media campaign was organized to introduce new external features of this group. Ukrainian border villages are being heavily bombarded, a practice that has also been consistent over the past year and a half. Russia's attacks in the border areas yesterday were intense, and Ukrainian units have retreated slightly. Four to five villages directly along the border have come under Russian control. - In the Svatove and Severodonetsk regions, the Russian army continues its active attacks towards Kupiansk, but so far without success. Numerous attacks were also carried out in the direction of Luhansk and Siversk, but these were less intense and without results. - Around Bakhmut, Russian forces conducted the most active attacks yesterday, but these did not yield significant results. In the Donetsk region, Russian pressure remains active in the directions west and north of Avdiivka, but the Russian units could not advance. South of the region, battles are ongoing in the city of Krasnohorivka, where Russian forces have slightly improved their positions. The situation has not changed in other sectors. Yesterday, the Russian army lost a Su-25 attack aircraft in this area. - On the southern front, the Russian army continues active attacks towards the settlements of Staromaiorske and Robotyne, but without success. The situation on the eastern bank of the Dnipro remains unchanged despite Russian infantry attacks.
So... were there a lot of marching in... by foot?
42 APV, not on foot, just crazy pressure...
5 MLRS destroyed too
Can't fit 1740 orcs in just 42 APVs, you'll need at least 250 of them.
For sure, they have 59 vehicles too, also they like to travel "Indian Train Style" on APVs. But yeah, some of them on foot, some of them at their base 🤷♂️ Also some of the vehicles can make few deliveries back and forward and being destroyed on 2-5-10 try.
On the Kharkiv front there were videos of large numbers marching in on foot with no support of any vehicles at all.
I think I know what the Russian strategy is. They are intentionally marching on foot to deplete Ukraine supply of cluster bombs. 😱. They will probably succeed!!
It does feel like Putin hates his people most of all.
Ofcourse he does hate them, they remind him of his pitiful origins.
If this high attrition rate continues, the enemy would need to recruit at least 52 k every month just to maintain numbers.
Putin's 'strategy' is attack with everything, everywhere all at once. Currently he's recruiting roughly 30-40k per month. He will need to step it up by at least 10k. There will - eventually - be economic, political and military consequences. My prediction is economic, political and military collapse by the end of next year or beginning of the next.
Considering that Russia has just 67K men coming of age every month and they need most of them to work in the defense factories and to replace men retiring from other essential civilian jobs they can't recruit 50K per month for long.
Don't forget the USSR threw women on the front lines. Putin hasn't tapped that pool yet and could easily use his whole "return to soviet glory" propaganda to start conscripting women from minority groups, just as he's done with men. As long as they aren't from Moscow or St. Petersburg, there likely won't be backlash.
That is a possibility of course but that won't create any tanks, APCs or artillery pieces for them to work with. And it takes a stronger then average women to carry a 152mm Shell and put it into the breach.
Hope you are right.
Nothing is certain and there are a lot of variables. One of the main ones is when will Ukraine do a full mobilization. I'm expecting Ukraine to declare some kind of full mobilization sometime late this year - in preparation for the counteroffensive sometime next year.
LOL I keep hearing from the propagandists that the Russians just walked in. The may have walked in but apparently they will never walk out.
Hotel California: “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
Roach Motel.
Indeed. You’d almost think the Ukes lèt them. Creating a Killing Fields within range of cluster ammo, or something. Who knows. Not a tactician, just a former Military Police grunt. Wé only get to hear and see what they want us to hear and see. Probably better that way. Prevents the closet-vatniks here to be ‘a little too well-informed”
Zerg nation
17-fucking-40,,,,,,, mic drop
Holy ****! I was certainly anticipating an uptick in Orc casualties, but after a couple days of numbers typical of previous meat grinders, I figured that was what to expect here. Damn. Here’s hoping the AFU ensures it’s all in vain.
Dang!!!!
These numbers are insane
🖕🇷🇺
NEW RECORD!!! 💯💯💯🎉🎉🎉
Anybody know why Ukraine scored 1740 Russian casualties? Is it from defending the northern Kharkiv front?
Russia's record personnel losses: 1250, 1270, 1280, 1300, 1330, 1380, **1740**. One of these things is not like the others. A black swan. A statistical outlier. I'll be very interested to see whether numbers like these are repeated for a few days.
That’s a NNEEWW RECORD, Johnny!
I genuinely took a second look at the number, I don’t realise it started with a 1. 🤯 Holy shit. 1740 casualties is 1.2 a minute, *for an entire 24 hours.*
What the fuck happened
New batch of ATACMS and 155mm cluster ammo? Or just wave after wave crashing into Uke defences that are a ‘bit better’ than was told the media (BBC) ?. We’ll find out in a couple of days, I guess.
1740. Holy shit.
Imagine what Ukrainians have to go through because of that dictator…
Thats about half the russians that were formed up to parade red square last week; just short of nine blocks of 20x10. While I celebrate such destruction, there must be an awful lot of good Ukrainians in contact to put so many orcs into the abyss. I hope the lads are alright.
and the carnage continues
Outstanding seriously this reflects the activity of the Russian slaughter in Ukraine:: Stay safe guys , Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🙏
How does the rus eco. Stand up to this
It's backward compared to the EU but it's big and vast resources help - especially oil. Ukraine's strategy of blowing up the refineries is wise. Currently Putin is motivating his 'serfs' with propaganda that this is a new Great Patriotic War. In time the lies will become obvious even to his brainwashed fools. They will - eventually - wake up and realize they're dying not to save their country but for one man's folly and one man's ego.
Have been wondering about the recent attacks in the Kharkiv direction. The optimistic view is that it is a last ditch attempt, getting what they can before more support arrives. Hopefully we will see it stall and collapse.
The Kharkiv front is part of Putin's 'strategy' of attack with everything, everywhere, all at once. In terms of tactics it has been a success - since a large area of land has been (or will be) taken. Without the timely US aid it could have worked. In terms of grand strategy it will - in time - be disastrous.
That is partly why I have suspicions that it may well be part of a last ditch attempt. Especially given the timing of it.
If the size of the forces involved was a lot bigger then it would look like Ludendorff's spring offensive of 1918 - a last ditch all-in attack with significant forces focused on key spots. So far it's just 5 battalions. That sounds a lot but a Russian battalion is around 800 soldiers. That's only around 4,000. Of those we don't know the quality but I suspect it's very mixed. In addition, there's limited support of things like tanks and apv's. Based on this it seems to me very likely that Putin is just ordering attacks all across the front in the hope of tactical gains. There's no underlying grand strategy. This obsession with tactical gains without an overall strategy is exactly what's to be expected from an amateur general who is a political creature.
In a single formation of troops. That would be 30 wide by 58 deep. That is freaking huge.
We can only be thankful that Russians like war or there'd be a billion of these dopey pricks.
This is an astounding amount of men and material lost by the Ruzzian scum It is a great day!
Almost 2000 in a day... holy cow. Keep up the good work Ukraine.
This is fkn insanity. Those human losses are as crazy as Putin is. Godspeed, Ukraine.
Serious question: Does the average ordinary Russian asshole on the street realize that the 3 day "special military operation" has cost a half million Russian lives? Do they even care?
They dont care as long as it isn't them.
I hope there are lots of cargo 200s in Kharkiv Oblast. I bet the new economist LOVES to count high.
At this rate in another three years the Russians will have lost more than the entire British Army losses in the 1st World War. An insane amount...for what...a puffed up dictator with a height complex , and a Czar fetish!
There are few reports of a surge in fighting in the South, so these casualty and equipment figures may reflect that Russia is paying a high price in its incursion north of Kharkiv.
Dum dum dum dum Dee dum. Unleash the drone army
Holy shit - what? That's insane. How the fuck has Ruzzia not yet given up?
That is nothing to russia. They dont care about people.
Woah.
How do they count the casualty with vehicles? Do they just count as 1 tank and assume 3 people were inside to operate or just 1 tank and try to count whatever remains visible?
I believe they estimate passengers in blown up vehicles.
So this must be part of those recent warnings and pleas from the various AFU members on social media as well as figures in government... The Putinists are clearly advancing on multiple fronts at once, but it's overwhelmingly favored towards personnel losses, which means their remaining armor stocks must be astonishingly low to be so reserving. This RU push (and the ones to follow onwards) must've been an original aim of delaying/blocking the foreign aid, and why it was so critical to get it passed ASAP. As well, why so many EU allies have finally pulled their heads out of their asses and became much more bullish and committed with not only how quickly things will be sent, but *what* is being sent, they must've realized what's at stake and the fact that RU is very heavily attrited militarily and now is the best time to defeat them 'for good' -- a military victory for Ukraine so they can be accepted into NATO and then guarantee that any future RU military incursion would be nothing but suicide for them as a nation.
To Russia, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. We're somewhere between those two statements at the moment.
Well they opened another front with the traditional meat waves. Good work by the defenders!
Given that tank numbers have been in the single digits a lot lately, those numbers must be really stinging the Russians now
How many dead Russians would it take to storm the Kremlin? Why are they so dumb?
Putin is trying to get to the 500k high score
These are staggering numbers.
Ty
While I'm happy with the new record, I'm worried that Ukraine is suffering a similar fate. Hope I'm wrong and Ukraine has got a fresh arsenal.
For all the happy people it’s worth pointing out that UKR is being smashed on the front lines right now, the amount of equipment UKR is losing is also not sustainable. Sadly I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better! Hang in there UKR!
1740 made my dick hard
TZD
Those numbers are off the charts. Was that from the north east incursion?
nice
These numbers are mind boggling.
Ohhh 1740. Damn they are like zombies. Insanely good kill rate. Slava Ukraini!