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[–] Resand@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seeing as they are still on their murderous war of conquest, obviously not enough yet.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

The total number is not what you should be looking at. The interesting thing is the number of losses in proportion to the Russian recruitment capacity. They have recruitment infrastructure that enables them to recruit a maximum of 35 000 (or, according to some sources, just 25 000) soldiers per month. They are not able to restructure their recruitment procedures in wartime, as that would first decrease the recruitment capacity for a few years.

The Russia must get their losses under that number, because as long as they don't, they won't be able to train their soldiers – they are needed too acutely at the front for that. If they can train their soldiers, their daily losses will decrease a lot.

Neither side is going to run out of population to send to the front in the next 50 years. But they can lose them faster than they are able to recruit new ones.

[–] europeanfan122@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

I dont feel bad about it

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Putin is ok with these numbers, in fact they need to be higher.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

They probably are higher.

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[–] bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not nearly enough, but certainly welcome.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Good for Ukraine.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

I find this difficult to believe. Edit: Wikipedia has a total (both sides) death toll of 160k-290k.

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

dont worry....trump will create peace on earth and no more wars and junk.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How many of those are From NK or are those numbers not counted?

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There has been no indication that any new NK soldiers have arrived after the initial 12000. That's ten day's worth losses or one month worth Russian army size decrease if you take the Russia's recruitment capacity into account.

When did the NK soldiers come? Four months ago? If so, they have recruited 100 000 to 140 000 Russian soldiers during that time, and the 13 000 NK soldiers are about 10 % atop that number. As they are muchore skilled than Russian soldiers, you'd assume their number is less than the slightly under 10 % you'd otherwise assume.

So, let's guess about 5 % of the current number are NK losses. Possibly less.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I'm honestly surprised they haven't pushed for more of them but I guess they can't maintain their hold on their borders if they sent too many soldiers.

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