Just Politics

[blackhawks]

So, six weeks in and no parade of Russian soldiers in Kyiv, a flagship at the bottom of the Black Sea and at least 7K dead Russians....3 weeks in, probably twice that now....?

A decisive embarrassment for Putin and an unmitigated disaster for Russian families of the soldiers and untold numbers Ukrainian civilians.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-losses-deaths-ukraine-already-exceed-multiple-wars-2022-3



The Russian casualties appear to be of a scale similar to those at Iwo Jima — one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history – where about 6,852 US troops died and around 19,000 were injured in five weeks of fighting against an entrenched Japanese force, which sustained an estimated 18,000 dead and missing.

If Russian forces were to continue losing troops at this rate, in a year about 121,000 Russian troops would be dead, with injured likely to be three or four times higher — suggesting Russia's offensive must break the Ukrainian resistance or suffer unsustainable losses.

That toll, for example, would be higher than American casualties during the Korean War, where 36,576 Americans died over the course of three years.