Russia’s losses in Ukraine have reached nearly 1.2 million—equal to its entire pre-war army and several times higher than losses in Afghanistan, or most countri

By the end of 2025, Russia’s total irrecoverable losses in the war are projected to reach 1.2 million—a figure unseen since World War II. Yet in the Kremlin, these unprecedented casualties are met with calm resolve. Russia appears willing to continue the war, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers each year.

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    • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Good find; thanks! So it is repatriations.

      I hope the US doesn’t do that, because forcing people into a war zone against their will would be even more cruel than the typical deportations already are.

      One line in the intro caught my eye:

      Russia started the large-scale military invasion

      It made me laugh, because the author obviously started with the FULL-SCALE INVASION line that the Anglo media has been uniformly blasting for years, but—because academic work is less propagandistic than the news—they paused to give it some thought and correctly realized that there is no way to know or define what a truly “full-scale” conflict is, so they removed the absolute language.