I started looking into this and the headlines are insane when you finally figure out what they're saying. Russia has lost over one million men. Wtf?
Here is the headline and article explaining how much that is. If you're skimming, this is what you'll get out of it:
Russia ‘losing 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit’
While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the last two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured.
“We estimate that the gap between the number of people Russia is losing to casualties and the number they’re being able to recruit is around 6,000 a month at the moment,” one western official said.
So that means, at the time (August of this year), they were losing 36,000 men a month. This article confirms that 25,000 were killed. Losing can mean taken out of action. This is why I hate headlines and some of these so called journalists.
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