Russia is losing roughly 25,000 troops killed every month in Ukraine while gaining little ground, according to Finland’s President Alexander Stubb.

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[–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

The reason russia is losing the landwar to Ukraine has nothing to do with how many untrained, clueless, scared infantry they have to throw away in mindless waves. Russia is no longer capable of applying artillery pressure on the frontlines without exposing the platforms it uses to do so to being obliterated. Glidebombs are russia's last crutch to lean on but Ukraine just today demonstrated the capability to reach out and destroy russian fighterbombers on the ground, at the static infrastructure they rely on.... glidebombs launched from high performance fighterbombers is a collapsing sandcastle of a strategy for russia.

Russia can't magically turn a random person into someone capable of operating a sophisticated air defense system and actually protectly friendly airspace without shooting down passenger airliners by accident. That takes years, money, systems of effective professional accountability and it takes a consistent supply of equipment that actually works.

Russia is fucked.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    I agree, but there are political leaders that are expressing concern about it, and among those are Zelenskyj.

    I have previously expressed that sending more untrained people to the front will achieve nothing, and only increase their losses.
    But you have the experienced people already there, and they use these new canon fodder "soldiers" to run out to die, to reveal Ukrainian positions. It's absolutely disgusting, but they do get some tactical benefit from these poor bastards.

    Yes Russia is fucked. But the war is an enormous burden and cause for suffering for Ukraine.
    It would be better if Russia simply collapsed already.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes I agree the war must stop, I do not desire endless conflict I just also realize how Putin will try to use mass terrorism against Ukrainian civilians to distract the political narrative about power balance here.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Oh yes, Putin is always trying to be as scary as possible. Both in an attempt to make Ukraine give up, but also in an attempt to make their allies give up. The truth is Putin lost already in the early days, when Zelenskyj refused an airlift out of Kiev, an stated he needed weapons not a ride.
    Putin tries to manipulate and scare to influence politics as you say. But luckily not everyone is falling for it. It's mostly the weak minded like Trump.
    But the story about mobilization of up to 500000 troops is not a Putin story, that's a Zelenskyj story and many analysts making that warning.

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