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Originally Posted by Firebot
It's KIA according to the Defense of Ukraine (they have clarified a few times in the past since this question has been often asked), they don't include injured, POWs in this number which would raise it significantly higher based on their assessment. Now whether those numbers are accurate cannot be independently validated, but they do an assessment based on what they target, bodies found and drone footage of which some is available and have been verified. For example they blow up a tank and most modern tanks have a 4 man crew, they count this 4 in those numbers. Can't be validated , just deduced, but most likely close to accurate.
US estimates have always been conservative when counting casualties and their numbers includes injured
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-St...official-says/
Considering this is from August and injured being 3-4 times (meaning estimates would be 20-25K killed) , the amount killed is still significant even by the most conservative estimates. I couldn't find any up to date US estimates. |
Injured being 3-4 times killed is for armies that actually make an attempt to assist their wounded comrades instead of all just running. For the Russians it's probably a 1 to 1 ratio.