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General Staff: Russia has lost 696,410 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
(kyivindependent.com)
Funny. I guess the turrets do kinda just pop off like the thumbnail.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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russian tanks tend to store their ammo inside the turret. it's kinda like a cheat code - either through the turret ring or through an open hatch, once you get a decent boom, they tend to POP.
It's setting a fascinating post-putin cloud of possibilities. The demographic and economic hits alone throw 'russia' and it's 'CIS' into disarray. Think 20 years down the road. Holy shit.
That's nearly 1 in 200 Russian citizens that have ~~died~~ been injured or killed in the Ukrainian invasion, if my math is correct:
696410 / 144544546 * 100 = 0.482
These are not all deaths. october 10th nytimes article:
According to U.S. assessments, Russian casualties in the war so far number as many as 615,000 — 115,000 Russians killed and 500,000 wounded.
Ah - "lost" in OP's link is a misleading word, then!