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Originally Posted by Plett25
https://twitter.com/user/status/1505972650786672648
The war is not going well for Russia. Ukraine is a meatgrinder for Russian soldiers.
Nearly 10,000 dead and about 15% of the invasion force killed or wounded. Looks like the Ukrainian estimates are reasonably close to reality
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For the amount of time that has passed and relative to the whole size of the force, those are massive amounts of casualties. The kind of casualties you can't cover up to other soldiers. Every solider is going to know many of the killed or wounded soldiers, and they'll start talking.
To put this in perspective, Canada through the entire course of WWII saw less than ten percent of their 1.1 million troops killed or wounded. It's about three times the death rate of the allies (4.4k total deaths) in the invasion of Normandy (that's if you count only the 150k soldiers and not the 200k naval members)