Putin's monumental mistake
During a meeting with journalists, the Kremlin dictator declared that the Ukrainian army would be losing around 25,000 soldiers a month.
But Putin also pointed out that the ratio between the irrecoverable losses of Ukrainian and Russian troops, i.e. the number of dead, is 5:1. In other words, if Putin admits that 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died, the number of Russians killed, according to him, is 5,000. A gross communication mistake?
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) however disagrees with Putin's claims, asserting that there is no evidence of such high losses on the Ukrainian side.
According to the statistics, the number of Russian casualties due to wounds or disabilities is considered to be three times higher than the number of killed soldiers, which means that the losses of the Russian army amount to 15,000.
In other words, the Russians are losing 20,000 people a month. And this is only the minimum estimate, acknowledged by the Russian authorities. The real figure could be much higher.
As a reminder, according to official data alone, the number of wounded and killed Soviet soldiers during the ten years of the terrible war in Afghanistan amounted to around 80,000. This would mean Russia lost as many people in the war against Ukraine in 4 months as it did in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
(FM/Source: ISW/Photo: Pixabay)
